"Orwell's Animal Farm is more than a fairy story. ... Animal Farm extends beyond the outward appearance of a fairy tale, and exposes the treachery, corruption and dishonesties that exist in dictatorial societies. ... The novel is replete with messages and lessons regarding blind conformity and the misuse of power, that are not to be found in typical fairy stories. ... Not exactly the way a farm pig would act in normal fairy tale, right? ... Animal Farm goes beyond a typical fairy story and exposes life in 20th Century totalitarian Russia, in which idealism is betrayed by power, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Society approaches a crisis: the classes freely intermingle in the Governor's mansion; the fires burn; ludicrous "revolutionary- theorizing gives way to action; the fairy-tale prince, Stavrogin, commits suicide; his spiritual father, his former tutor Stephan Trofimovich Verkhovensky, strikes out upon the road in a futile, desperate pilgrimage to "find Russia-, and also dies. ... Stavrogin's act of suicide is the act of magnanimity he had not believed within his grasp "he becomes a hero, a fairy-tale prince, not through the desultory acts of his largely wasted life but through t...

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A. Orwell intended to criticize the communist regime he saw sweeping through Russia and spreading to Europe and even the United States. Though he agreed with many Marxist values, Orwell couldn't really accept the communist understanding of socialism because he saw many similarities between the comm...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate