Leon Battista Alberti

An example of personification in this story is how each of the main characters represents a famous person in history. A few examples are Napoleon the pig represents Joseph Stalin, a former Russian General Secretary, and Snowball is like Leon Trotsky who was a Marxist revolutionary and theorist. Last we have the dogs who Napoleon took from their mother at a young age and then turns them into a little army which makes them like the Secret Police. (chapter 3) Orwell uses personification…

Animal Farm is a scathing critique of communism by George Orwell. However, he presents it in an interesting format by spoofing another historical event at the time. The story in Animal Farm bears more than a passing resemblance to the Russian Revolution, as many animals share characteristics with the people of the Russian Revolution, the result of both the story and the revolution is the same, and common themes emerge in both events. One way Animal Farm shows similarities to the Russian…

Although Boxer of Animal Farm and Parsons of 1984 express very similar traits, with both characters being ideal citizens under their respective government, many readers view the two as near opposites due to the ability of a protagonist to bias our view of them. On the most basic level, Boxer and Parsons appear to be nearly identical characters. Even though the reader can recognize that the governments in each novel are horrendous and abusive dictatorships, neither Boxer nor Parsons realize how…

Animal Farm. Tuck Everlasting. What are these names? Well I’ll tell you. Animal Farm and Tuck Everlasting are two amazing books written by George Orwell* and Natalie Babbitt*. Animal Farm is based on the issues/problems caused by the Russian Revolution; and Tuck Everlasting is mostly about how immortality isn’t always that great. Another common theme for Tuck Everlasting is love is forever. Animal Farm in a brief summary is a story in which animals take over a farm because they are mistreated by…

What do boys, a conch, pigs, and no parents all have in common in Lord of the Flies? They all have to deal with the theme of internal conflict of giving into the savageness or stay within society norms. Order vs. Chaos and Irrational vs. Rational is what it is. They are young, impressionable children that do not fully understand what it means to be in charge and run a civilization. They only care about themselves and no one else at this age. Let’s start with “Piggy”, from the beginning he is…

As the animals looked in at the party they knew what had to be done. Clover sent a hen to get together all of the animals who are not on Napoleon’s side. All of the animals that are against Napoleon had a meeting in the barn so that they can make a plan to overthrow Napoleon and the other pigs. As they were coming up with a plan Clover asked if Snowball could help with the plan. One of the animals suggested that the animals have a vote. After the animals voted it was desisted that they will send…

Fellow Comrades, We have been working hard for a leader that we don’t know exactly what his goals are. Mr. Jones, the name we fear, he starved us and made us work for his benefits. What’s the difference now? We have the same amount of food and we have been working more than what we initially believed. All this for a windmill which will benefit us in the future? According to my knowledge on the Russian Revolution, Stalin the former leader tortured his people for his benefit. He made the…

Animal farm shows show the government starts off by wanting good for the animals such as equality but, during the novel, the leaders used their power and manipulation to get more power and they used it to make a dictatorship government. In the beginning of the novel, Old Major enforced the idea of rebellion and change by using his power and respect that the animals has towards him. He wants good but doesn’t realize that he is doctoring the animals. After the death of old major, Napoleon took…

In the book “Animal Farm” the animals that live on the farm take over control of the farm. The leaders of the new farm want to be nothing like the humans but end up doing many of the things that they said they hated. The animals want equality through democracy but obtained it through being getting together and socializing. This eventually leads to communism and the destruction of the farm and it’s animals. The old boar, Old Major, has the idea that there needs on the farm and he takes the role…

➢ Collectivization: introduced by Stalin which wiped out the Kulaks, those who opposed the First 5 Year Plan – this led to famine and the deaths of millions – it was required of peasants to sell a large portion of their food production at a cheap price but did let them sell the extra food - essentially, it destroyed the idea of private ownership and grouped together tinier farms privately owned by peasants and created larger farms, beginning in 1928. The belief behind this was that by grouping…