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    main character‚ or even an action filled event happening right in front of the reader’s eyes. The power that the author has over the reader is amazing. Animal farm is the first example of a piece of literature that involves an immense amount of violence and harsh wording in order to get the point across. Alliterations also play a huge role in the creation of this novel as well. The author‚ George Orwell does an amazing job at taking an old‚ confusing

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    George Orwell is a author well known all over the world. He is known for his pessimistic writing and strong beliefs against communism. He has had two major selling novels. These are Nineteen Eighty-four and Animal Farm. In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm‚ he uses the characters and storyline to represent the Soviet Union during Communist rule. The symbolism and allegory in the novel show what life was like for common people in the Russian Revolution. George Orwell was born on June 25‚ 1903‚ in

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    George Orwell Animal Farm Animal Farm by George Orwell is an animalistic adaptation of the struggle between Tolstoy and Stalin in the early 20th Century within the Soviet Union. Power and authority can be gained‚ maintained and lost all of these three things happen in the novel. The pigs on the farm Snowball‚ Napoleon & Squealer gained power by using persuasion techniques and being the smartest animals on the farm. At the start of the novel Old-Major gave a very persuading speech about how

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    Animal Farm‚ written by George Orwell in 1945‚ is an allegorical novel which is also a reflection of Joseph Stalin’s rule during the Russian Revolution. Key characters and events in the novel symbolise major people and events around the Revolution and in particular‚ the character of Squealer who plays the role of a propagandist. Through exploring the speeches made by Squealer‚ the power of propaganda is revealed as he manipulates the thoughts of the animals to the advantage of the pigs. First of

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    Do the animals on Animal Farm really believe that all of us pigs are doing seemingly bad things ”in a spirit of selfishness and privilege‚” (Orwell 35)? I know that I‚ along with Napoleon‚ are doing everything for the welfare of the hard workers on Animal Farm. In an ideal utopia‚ I believe that all animals should really be equal‚ and everyone should thrive and enjoy their life. Not only did I agree with the teachings that the late Old Major sparked in us‚ but I was in full support of enforcing

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    When propaganda is used it is related to control because it’s a way of maintaining power (Jwett 4). Propaganda is a way of communicating in which the promoter tries to achieve a reaction from the people to further the desired goal he or she has (Jwett 1). It strives to impact the behavior of people by influencing the opinions and attitudes‚ and it also makes things look positive (Neumann). Squealer represents propaganda because he is very persuasive. Also‚ he always seems to get away with things

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    Animal Farm Submitted by Avery Beacham Fall semester 2013 In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of Tenth Grade Honors Literature Animal farm is a classic portrayal of how power can affect the goals and hopes of society. Animal farm‚ a story by George Orwell begins with a revolution‚ and a lot of hopes for a perfect society being developed by the animals by kicking off the humans from the farm but slowly the leading officials‚ the pigs‚ get a taste of power and from then on things began

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    familiar with Blair’s literary name George Orwell. This famous pseudonym is mostly associated with a dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-four published in 1948 that ever since then “has probably outsold all the rest of the utopias and dystopias ever written put together” (Claeys‚ 391). This highly famous literary work was preceded by an equally valuable political satire which was put on the market in 1945 for the first time. Apart from being a political satire‚ Animal Farm is a very clever allegory focusing

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    George Orwell disguised criticism towards Russia in his novels Animal Farm and 1984‚ which caused much controversy in the mid-1900’s‚ and caused his books to be banned in Russia for years until later being turned into movies. George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25‚ 1903 in Motihari‚ India to Richard Walmesley and Ida Mabel Blair. His family struggled to make ends meet and brought George to England as a toddler. The people in his school and neighborhood would tease him and looked down

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    Observation: The author of the novelAnimal Farm” is George Orwell. The audience from the Animal Farm is any person that reads the book. The literary style that Orwell used is allegory because include poem for example the poem entitled “ Comrade Napoleon”. The text was written after the cowshed rebellion in 1936 at England. Interpretation: The text was written to tell everyone how the animals lived during the rebellion and how was their society. Animal Farm portrays the irony of the communist

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