... of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."(Gardner, 106) Orwell noted that " there exists in England almost ... viewed either with ignorant disapproval' or with uncritical admiration.'"(Gardner, 96) The basic synopsis is this: Old Major, an old boar in Manor Farm, tells the other animals of his dream of "anima...

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... Ridley, the director of Blade Runner. Blade Runner is a movie of the dystopic science fiction genre and is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The world in Blade Runner somewhat resembles the world created by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Blade Runner and Brave New World ... where humanity has lost its way and has been profoundly manipulate by science and technology; worlds where nature has no influence on humanity. Through the study of text from different historical and cultural background, it can be seen that the issue dealt in texts are greatly influenced by th...

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