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Animal farm as a political text
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Fascism is a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. Fascism also occurs in our literature such as the great pieces Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty-Four by Orwell, Yertle the Turtle by Seuss and Dictator by Kessler. These pieces will now be deeply explored so we can find out what English literature tells us about fascism.
Animal Farm is a novella by George Orwell based upon the rise of Stalin and Russian Revolution and references heavily to authoritarianism, fascism and dictatorships although never referring to them directly.
Snowball and Squealer climbed upon a ladder up to the barn with paint and a brush and wrote the Seven Commandments:
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
These commandments seem too good to be true and they are with the commandments manipulated as quick as they arrived. Starting with the harvest the pigs assume leadership perverting the seventh commandment; all animals are equal. "With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership". This shows the wickedness of the pigs and reveals the truth about the less intelligent creatures. The pigs feel that although 'their' society is meant to be equal they manipulate the other animal’s stupidity to their advantage and assume themselves as leaders. This was the crux of ...
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...earth”. Using this beautifully bold metaphor he can refer to the deaths of innocent people being executed by the hands of evil.
Neruda tries to exclaim the selfishness and vileness of it “Hatred has grown scale on scale, blow on blow, in the ghastly water of the swamp, with a snout full of ooze and silence” This shows the fear the Dictator drives into the heart of others with another plant metaphor. We can tell that his or her empire has grown and grown and nobody likes it because Neruda uses the word “ooze”. He also uses the word silence to show the secret being kept from other countries, which will cooperate with “The weeping cannot be seen”.
Nineteen-Eighty-Four is a classic written by George Orwell in the 1940’s when he was dying. Some say that it was to make him feel better because he didn’t want to live in the world like the one he had written about.