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Animal Farm- Historical Relevance
Title: Animal Farm- Historical Relevance
Category: Literature / North American
Details: Words: 2252 | Pages: 9.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Animal Farm- Historical Relevance
George Orwell grew up a devout and dedicated socialist in the British colonies of India and even when he eventually studied and lived in England. He was loyal to the beliefs and followings of socialism's fathers, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the authors of The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. However, when Orwell saw the ideals of Socialism turned into vicious Communism, taking advantage of and abusing the lower classes that it was intended to …showed first 75 words of 2252 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2252 total…turning the settlement into what it initially opposed. The Animal Farm was written as a specific attack on a specific government, but its general and underlying themes of oppression, injustice and tyranny are a powerful attack on any political or military powers that seek to unjustly control human beings. Too much power brings out the worst in us and great and absolute power corrupts us in a way that only seems natural to an animal.
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