This extract, which is taken from chapter eight of George Orwell's Animal Farm, revolves around this issue. ... Through his narrative, Orwell emphasizes the similarities between the animal farm and Russia in the 20 century to unveil the duplicity of both the fictional leader Napoleon and the historical leader Stalin. ... Orwell uses irony to further illustrate the animals' submissiveness. ... Orwell seeks to assert that they both seem to conform to the political and social notion of the happy slave that perpetuates public submissiveness and political oppression. ... I have also trie...

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