Leon Festinger

During the period 1855 – 1956 Russia was involved in many major wars, all of which played an important role in its development. With the exception of the Second World War many of the wars Russia was involved led to defeats for them and these defeats exposed the weakness of the Tsar or government in charge. War outlined the flaws in the presiding system and highlighted Russia’s faults, and thus placed a spotlight upon the shortcomings of the Russian leadership. Such pressure prompted the Tsars…

Animal Farm Essay The US has utilized propaganda techniques through history during international crisis and war. George Orwell visibly uses propaganda in his fictional novel Animal Farm. The book is set on a farm called Manor Farm, which was changed to Animal Farm, with talking animals who rebel against their farmer. According to Orwell, the novel symbolizes events leading up to the Russian Revolution and then later on to the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Characters like Snowball and…

Do you ever want someone who will treat you fairly and not make up any crazy rules for you to follow, then you should vote for Snowball. He will protect the rights for the animals better than anyone else. I believe Snowball will be the best for animal farm because of all the ideas he can come up with, like his idea for the windmill. Snowball will not take things from the animals, like milk from the cows or eggs from the chickens. You see Napoleon is trying to take over because he thinks he can…

Napoleon does not seem to be satisfied with what he has. Instead, he secures his authoritative figure and the pigs’ position so that the pigs are placed at a more superior level to the others. For example, his decision of building a schoolroom exclusively for educating the pigs, not only differentiates the pigs from the labouring classes, but more importantly, it is a clear illustration of Napoleon’s thirst for power due to his intention to indoctrinate the young pigs on how ideal a leader he is…

A metaphor, according to Wikipedia, is “figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two”. Now one might think that it’s impossible for a single book to brilliantly and metaphorically relate farm animals and Russian communist idealisms, but Animal Farm by George Orwell does just that. From the opening page of the novel, Orwell’ preface allowed me to formulate ideas and concepts before…

Animal Farm is a book about animals that take over Manor Farm by running Mr. Jones off. In the same way, that the Russian workers removed Czar Nicholas II from power because he was neglecting them. This book was written by George Orwell,in which he expresses the struggles of the Soviet Union and relates them to the events that happen in the book through the use of allegory. One allegory, Fredrick wanted to buy timber from Napoleon so he paid Napoleon for the timber. In other words,…

Joseph Stalin, to put it simply, is the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world. He is plain evil, and that is what makes him so intriguing. From Stalin’s harsh adolescent years, to his crime ridden young adult years, and finally the years of his dictatorship, the life of Joseph Stalin is one for the books. Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 18, 1879 in the Russian occupied country of Georgia. The Djugashvili family was desperately poor. Josef’s father was a…

Power in “Animal Farm” Imagine a society without government, or a community without a leader. Society would not function without a command center or commander. Leadership and governance is key to society and with leadership come power, but power can be used in various ways. First, it can be used to create a better society where a leader always thinks about the citizens first. This way of using power should remind people of Snowball who is depicted in the book “Animal Farm”. On the other hand,…

Snowball is the Animal Farm counterpart to Leon Trotsky, one of the first leaders of Communist Russia. Snowball and Trotsky were both intelligent, and had many ideas for the greater future for their respective lands. Snowball was the one to lead the animals in the Battle of the Cowshed, in which…

Animals of Animal Farm, your poor lives are lacking. You’ve been denied so much. I’ve seen the world outside this cage that horrible pig built, flying the sky on these wings of mine. I know how much that tyrant Napoleon kept from you. The beautiful, simple privileges all animals deserve, that you animals have been deprived of. There is a mountain in the sky, trust me, covered in sugar and no body works there. Nobody starves. Old Major waits there for us! Surrounded by his children and friends,…