Following is an excerpt from a letter from George Orwell to Dwight Macdonald‚ written in December 1946‚ soon after the publication of Animal Farm in the US. According to the editor of the letters‚ Peter Davison‚ who also supplied the footnotes‚ Macdonald wrote Orwell that anti-Stalinist intellectuals of his acquaintance claimed that the parable of Animal Farm meant that revolution always ended badly for the underdog‚ “hence to hell with it and hail the status quo.” He himself read the book as
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“The farm was more prosperous now‚ and better organized; it had even been enlarged by two fields which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington. The windmill had been successfully completed at last‚ and the farm possessed a threshing machine and a hay elevator of its own‚ and various new buildings had been added to it” [p.128]. All of these modern new machines had been due- according to Squealer- to Napoleon’s hard work and love for the animals on the farm. When in reality it had been gained on the backs
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Animal Farm - Karl Marx Is based on the work of the German Philosopher Karl Marx Karl Marx was a German Philospher Ms F Grech - Form 3 “The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces‚ the more his production increases in power and range...” 1 Animal Farm - Karl Marx “The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates...” What does this mean? A useful or valuable thing Karl Marx was talking about Capitalism
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Animal testing has been used by many companies ever since the 1960s. Companies have been using animals in a cruel way to test and prove that their new products are not dangerous. People from the companies who use animals for commercial testing are heartless people that can do harsh things to animals. Animal testing is cruel and inhumane‚ most experiments fail‚ and animals can get hurt just like humans‚ therefore animal testing should be banned. Cruel and Inhumane Using animals for scientific and
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English period 2 November 14‚ 2012 Animal Farm "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk‚ he does not lay eggs‚ he is too weak to pull the plough‚ and he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work‚ he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving‚ and the rest he keeps for himself." -George Orwell. In the classic satire Animal Farm‚ written by George Orwell. The author paints
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Animal Farm Throughout the novel‚ the pigs manipulate their superiority towards other animals using trickery and education to justify their behavior and actions. Based on the rationale that the pigs were the self-proclaimed “brains of the farm”‚ they thought they had the right to reside inside the farmhouse. Despite the skepticism of the other animals‚ Squealer manages to persuade them that everything they were doing was within the constitution that they had set forth. The original constitution
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Animal Farm (Synopsis) Animal farm was writing and published just as the cold war began to start. But the events in the book represent the time between 1917 and 1943‚ and the characters symbolize individuals in Russia at that time period. For example Napoleon (one of the pigs) represents Joseph Stalin who was the second leader for the Soviet Union he helped make it in to a superpower. Napoleon took control of the farm after Old Major passed away. Old Major portrays Karl Marx who was
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Throughout many years animals have been used for human purposes‚ without consideration of the pain or discomfort that it may cause these creatures. Approximately one hundred million animals are used in laboratories annually world wide‚ and it is time for that to change. Not only is animal testing cruel and inhumane‚ but it is also not necessary‚ as it is not always accurate and there are now alternatives to test products. Some of these subjects are given random drugs or chemicals to test the affects
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regarded by the other animals. He began the whole idea of the revolution. * Boxer was a huge‚ strong horse‚ not very smart but of good character. Clover was a motherly‚ middle-aged mare. * Benjamin was a donkey‚ the oldest animal on the farm. He was skeptical‚ cynical‚ and never laughed. Also‚ he was friends with Boxer. * Mollie was a "foolish‚ pretty white mare" who liked sugar and pretty ribbons. 2. For what purpose did Major call the meeting of the animals? He wanted to tell them
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