Leon Festinger

Leon Trotsky was another Marxist thinker who engage in a number of revolutionary insurrections and riots. His animal complement is Snowball, who, like Trotsky, perceive that a global series of rebellions was needed to achieve the revolution 's ultimate…

Communism Farm The book animal farm is about a farm of animals that have a revolution against the farmers and begin to run the farm on their own, but is this the only thing the book is about? The book is about more than just animals taking over a farm and running a corrupt government. The book is also about the time period it was written and the way things were run in the world war two era. The book was written by a man named George Orwell, he lived during that time and he had political…

Joel Barlow and his Hatred of Napoleon In Joel Barlow’s “Advice to a Raven in Russia”, he makes several points that hint toward his anti-Napoleon agenda. He makes references to the lands Napoleon has ravaged along his path of destruction. Barlow uses a raven as a sort of mascot because a raven can fly over everything and not only see the damage that has been done to the land, but also the people that inhabited these lands. This poem was written in 1812, which was during the time of the ruthless…

What is a leader? What is a boss? This paper will be constructed of arguments supported by evidence and reasons on what “The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents” defines a leader as. Many people have their own idea of what a leader is but in this paper you will grow in a better understanding of all the aspects of what a leader is. According to the book, Darktan demonstrated that a leader doesn’t leave a man behind. Being a leader can be very difficult at times, you have to make hard…

The Russian Revolution is portrayed in the famous novel Animal Farm by the talented George Orwell. Throughout the novel, the readers are introduced to a farm taken over and ran by animals that follow the written commandments established by the noble pigs. We are introduced to Napoleon, a stubborn pig who eventually takes over Animal Farm when Snowball gets chased away by his army of dogs. Napoleon is portraying Joseph Stalin, a dictator who killed millions of people. He was associated with…

Memory: Of the thousands of memories, one can acquire through life itself, I believe it impossible to name one in this single semester that overpowers anything I’ve experienced. However, because it is mandatory that I choose, I am going to speak about my experience with the book “Animal Farm”. This book is an allegory on its own and embodies the true essence of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The reason I chose this book to read mid-semester was that I enjoy reading without being pressured to…

Oppression as Explained in Animal Farm "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” –Steven Biko (Oppression Quotes). Oppression is the “cruel and unfair treatment of people, especially by not giving them the same freedom, rights, etc. as other people” (Oxford). One of the most renowned literary works pertaining to oppression is Animal Farm by George Orwell. Animal Farm allegorizes the events of the Russian Revolution and Stalin era. Using this source one…

In any story centering around power, whether it be historical or fictional, propaganda is a vital aspect. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, propaganda is used widely and effectively. This story revolves around a group of animals who rebel against their unjust human masters and take over the farm they slaved on, but of course, propaganda plays a big part in the events further on. The mastermind behind so much of this manipulation is the ever talented pig, Mr. Squealer. His efficiency with words is…

Animal Farm Responses 1. The ideas that Old Major advocated in his plan to initiate a revolution, which in turn would favor all the animals, indeed parallel those of the origins of socialism. Through Old Major’s words, he reveals the miserable animal exploitation and cruel workings that the human species had created for their own benefit; “The life of an animal is misery and slavery” (Orwell 28). Similarly to the notable socialist, Karl Marx, who argued that exploited workers would unite to…

The evil King, who was rumored to have set up the assassination of his mother, father, and brother. The King ruled with power over his poverty stricken and plague ridden kingdom. There was mass amounts of peasants who lived off of bread scraps and leaves. Those who lived, lived in huts made out of the trash that was thrown onto the streets. He believed in no other God but himself. He would torture, burn, and kill the people who opposed him, there was also large grey-brownish from the smoke of…