In order to fully understand George Orwell’s popular novelAnimal Farm,it’s important to have some understanding of the effects ofcommunism and the Russian Revolution. Orwell satirizes the latter within the lines of Animal Farm. He uses the power-hungry and controlling pigs to symbolize the lead...
Historical Context Example – Animal Farm Let’s delve a little further into this by looking at George Orwell’s classic, Animal Farm. If you’re unfamiliar with the book, it’s a story about how a group of farm animals rebel against their farmer and decide to run the farm on their own...
The corruption in The Giver is more subtle than that in Animal Farm or in its less allegorical counterpart, Orwell's 1984, but it nonetheless shows how an initial desire for safety can turn into the fear of change, the rejection of the past, and outright repression and oppression. By rem...