George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature. ... George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."... Orwell thought that such a political system, "state communism," was open to exploitation by its leaders. ... Orwell's implication is that "real" communism cannot exist in the countries which claim to be communist. ... Orwell, in Animal Farm portrays this nature by parody...

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(Orwell, Charles Dickens 1). ... The only historical characters in England in A Tale of Two Cities are King George III and Charlotte Sophia. Dickens describes King George III who is the King of England and Charlotte Sophia: " There was a King with a large jaw and a Queen with a plain face on the thrown of England" (Dickens 35). Later Miss Pross says, " The short and the long is that I am subject of his Most Gracious Majesty King George the third" (Dickens 318). ...

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