... being inevitably affected by the great influence and omnipresence of ideology. This extract, which is taken from chapter eight of George Orwell's Animal Farm, revolves around this issue. At this point of the narrative, The animals appear to be totally submissive to and even grateful for ... I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. In this extract, the animal farm seems to turn into a Foucauldian panopticon where the animals display unwavering ...

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