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Animal Farm’s Truth Within the Lines The novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell was written in 1945 as a symbolism to tell about the Russian desire for social and political change that eventually resulted with revolts and political organizations that led to the Russian Revolution of 1917. The revolts advocated for freedom from the oppressors and the political leaders offered equal rights as a form of gaining political control of the masses. Therefore Orwell is very keen in using animals that…

Novel Animal Farm contains the theme of totalitarian society and shows how it is possible to replace idealism by dictatorial rules. From 1936 Orwell wrote just works which were against totalitarian and for democratic socialism. In the novel Animal Farm he criticized Stalin´s rules in Russia. Due to political reasons it was not a good time to criticize Russia and therefore in 1943 – 1944 many publishers in Britain and the USA refused to publish his works. Despite this fact the novel became very…

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia on 22 April 1899, was a Russian-American novelist who was also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin. Nabokov originally began writing in Russian and wrote his first nine novels in Russian. However, Nabokov achieved international prominence after he started writing in English. Vladimir's finest novel Lolita is also considered his most controversial work because of the criticism it received due to its deep and warped erotic theme.…

In George Orwell’s allegory, Animal Farm, a society that represents Russia is under the control of a power hungry dictator who gains power over all the citizen’s and every aspect of their lives. The dictator, a pig who represents Joseph Stalin, takes control of the farm after a successful rebellion has taken place and the owner has fled. To maintain his power over the farm, the dictator rules by fear and manipulates the citizen’s to follow his commands and decisions. Through the development of…

Marxist Criticism Analysis in Doll’s House Play Karl Marx produced an exceeding complex theory consisting of at least three inter-related elements: a theory of economics, a theory of social class, and a theory of history. The working class that Marx called proletariat is paid too little to buy all the products the workers have made. The basic idea of Marxism is the Human thought is the product of the socio-economic condition (Letterbie 1259). Although this idea shows how the upper class is…

Animal Farm was written by George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair, a British political writer who, unlike most British citizens, was not a fan of the Soviet Union and its Socialist policies. He also did not consider the Soviet Union a positive representation of the possibilities of socialist societies. One of Orwell's goals in writing Animal Farm was to portray the Russian (or Bolshevik) Revolution of 1917 as one that resulted in a government more oppressive than the last. Thus the book…

Although socialist realist literature was a continuation of the traditional realism in that it also depicted the same subjects, it was a cessation of the latter since it significantly different from the latter in terms of its form and functions. While the nineteenth century Russian realism, best represented by the works of Anton Chekhov and Lev Tolstoy, depicts life as it is and criticizes it, socialist realism depicts life as what the Bolsheviks – this point is especially important since they…

The first article, “The Red Years,” describes the uprising of the Cultural Revolution and the toll it took on China. Once Mau and the Communist party came to power in China, some serious changes started to occur. Mao wanted the class enemies within the nation to be punished, and so he started recruiting the young people to stand up against them in a Cultural Revolution. At this point, the class system was flipped around. Those from a low class background became the new leaders, becoming “Red…

During the 19th and 20th centuries, many countries revolted against their previous leadership, and gained independence from their former rulers. An incredibly popular form of government has been socialism. In this paper, I will examine the differences between socialism and capitalism. Socialism, by Merriam-Webster dictionary, is defined as “Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and…

dictators created a long-term legacy of both progress and struggle during their reigns. Stalin’s path to power occurred in Russia within the Soviet Union, serving as the Secretary of the Communist Party and an important assistant to the controlling Lenin. Utilizing his position, he got many of his companions into powerful governmental positions and was able to gain political support until he eventually took over after Lenin’s death in 1924. Mao Zedong, over in China, was a school teacher during…