Vladimir Propp

At school the children were only taught about what the government wanted them to learn. Stalin had the kids tell the ss if there mom and and of even teacher were not following his rules.Outside of school, children were expected to join youth organisations.Women had less freedom with Stalin then with Lenin. Stalin put emphasis on family make any child born out of marriage homeless.The state paid families a child allowance if their were a married couple. It became a lot harder to get a divorce and…

Benjamin: Utopia Society Have you ever thought of just laying back in the sun with not a care in the world. I’m Benjamin and my moto/saying is “nothing really annoys me, I'm not that kind of [donkey], I'm quite laid back about most things”(Mark Lawrenson). I’m the oldest animal, least tempered so I really have no motive to take action or put input into anything that really goes on, unless it’s a cynical remark. My imagination of an utopian society is everyone is not worried about anything and…

course in every revolution there are key players, leaders and spokesmen for the people that try to gather the majority support and be able to rule “for the good of the people.” The Russian revolution’s key players take the form of Nicholas Romanov II, Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Kerensky and each of them mark an event of the revolution and symbol of the mass participation that took place. The revolution started on January 9, 1905, when a priest led a petition to increase living wages and civil…

In Interwar Extremism, there were three types of government systems that intended to make life better for the people; but instead threatened democracy and led to World War 2. Russia based their government around Communism, which was led by Vladimir Lenin. Italy based their government around Fascism, which was led by Benito Mussolini. Germany based their government around Nazism, which was led by Adolf Hitler. Communism ideology, being derived from Karl Marx, was based on common ownership of the…

The quote from the book Animal Farm by author George Orwell that represents the message of the literature is from page 114, “About this time, too, it was laid down as a rule that when a pig and any other animal met on the path, the other animal must stand aside: and also that all pigs, of whatever degree, were to have the privilege of wearing green ribbons on their tails on Sundays.”. This quote tells us that Napoleon and the other pigs power has gone to their heads. The pigs have made…

In Richard Wright’s novel Black Boy , Richard suffers from physical, emotional, and mental hunger . Richard was a little black boy that suffered from a lot of things . His father left them , with no food or money . Their father usually would bring the groceries home , but he left his family alone with nothing . So Richard had to be the man of the house . First, he suffered from physical hunger . Wright’s dad left him, his mom, and his brothers in the tenement by themselves . They had no food…

Do you think power is corrupt? It seems as if George Orwell thought so. He often wrote about the darker side of politics. In Animal Farm he wrote about the darker side of Soviet Communism. George Orwell’s Animal Farm shows power is corrupt by giving a closer look at animals that broke away from humans to govern themselves, but face many hardships. In Animal Farm, the pigs overworked the animals, the pigs starved the animals, and they started breaking their own rules. The pigs overworking the…

Literary Analysis: “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka is known by most first-time readers as simply a classic, existentialist work of fiction that follows the life of a man named Gregor Samsa, whom wakes up one morning to find that he has suddenly metamorphosed into a roach. Despite this seemingly simple plot summarization of man-turned-bug, the Metamorphosis offers much more room for interpretation when one analyzes the text. Further analysis shows that the…

George Orwell the author of Animal Farm, was a famous author who focused his works on major political movements of his time. In his book Animal Farm, an allegorical about what went wrong during the Russian Revolution when Russia turned into a Communist Russia. Revealed through literary devices and connections through characters, many allegories can be found throughout the book. He uses animal characters to to symbolize real historical figures throughout World War II. One of Orwell’s goals in…

legally punishable or whether the action seems to be criminal and should be punished according to an individual’s morals. The problem presents itself on a national level in the relationship of American President Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as on a local level in how the municipal government of Flint, Michigan handled the water crisis that affected its residents. President Trump took the oath for one of the most coveted and highly regarded positions in the United…