... with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole." Through this essay, the social and political situation presented in George Orwell's Animal Farm will thoroughly be discussed and described. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Russian Revolution began with the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in 1917. The Government was then taken over in the absence ... Old Major is Marx and perhaps Marxist-Leninism; Boxer and Clover represent the proletariat (the urban industrial worker)-and more remotely the Chinese revolutionaries of the 1900 Boxer Rebel...

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... speaker with a sense of power over the illiterate and less knowledgeable. This idea of "language and knowledge is power" is one of the reoccurring themes in George Orwell's famous allegory, Animal Farm. Hitler, one of the most commonly and widely known dictators in the world's history, would never have gained the support he did without his great speaking abilities. He was a very ... most famous as a stinging critique of the history and rhetoric of the Russian Revolution. Retelling the story of the emergence and development of Soviet communism in the form of an animal fable, Animal Farm ...

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