Leon Spinks

Both the pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Vladimir Putin use fear and propaganda to stay in power. Animal Farm is an allegory meant to represent the events of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The book is about animals who take over their farm in order to run it themselves. They eventually fall under the leadership of a pig named Napoleon, who often deceives the animals in order to maintain power. The book highlights the ignorance of the animals who end up just as they were in the beginning…

Nelson Mandela once said that he believes “The death sentence is a barbaric act… It is the reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.” Nelson Mandela was the president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and he always argued that the death penalty was an animal act. The death sentence was a large part of the play Twelve Angry Men, written by Reginald Rose. Although the jury room has been seen as one single aspect of a courtroom, there are really four elements that make the jury room.…

Animal Farm by George Orwell, is a satirical novella analysing the Russian political climate of 1945. With England’s increasing contact with the Soviet Union, during the rise of Joseph Stalin and brewing of the Cold War, Orwell sought to vent his frustrations through his art. Orwell, being a prescient writer (Kennedy 2017), was able to contextualise the events of, and immortalise, the Russian Revolution, whilst alluding to the result of the Communist agenda that took power during his lifetime.…

Aesop’s Fables Introduction Fables are told all through the world. The characters of fables are usually animals that attract children to learn lesson from the stories. When I lived in China, I read many kinds of fables, including ancient Chinese fables, Arabic fables, and Greek fables. I have been interested in Aesop’s Fables from Greece since I was a child. The fables in Aesop’s collection usually have simple context, but they reveal deep meanings. My passion of reading fables was inspired by…

Both the pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Vladimir Putin use fear and propaganda to stay in power. Animal Farm is an allegory meant to represent the events of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The book is about animals who overtake their farm to run it themselves. They eventually fall under the leadership of a pig named Napoleon who often deceives the animals in order to maintain power. The book highlights the ignorance of the animals who end up just as they were in the beginning of the…

The book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell revolves around the concept of socialism and communism. However, in this book, it takes form in something called Animalism, a code of conduct set in place by the animals in Manor Farm after driving off Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones was the farm owner who was negligent of their needs. It is because of this that the animals rise up and revolutionize the place, claiming the farm as theirs and stating their independence. As you may have guessed by now, Animalism fails…

the Russian Revolution. For example, in Animal Farm Napoleon seems the most like Joseph Stalin and Snowball from Animal Farm seems the most like Leon Trotsky. In Animal Farm Snowball was trusted by everyone after Old Major passed away, he took in account of everyone’s ideas and reasons behind those ideas, and was most like Old Major overall; just like Leon Trotsky in the Russian Revolution everyone trusted him after Emperor Nicholas II had been disowned by the country,…

Society is a huge power struggle by power-hungry political powers. In the novel, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, a group of animals succeed in taking over their farm from their previous owner, but later on, they eventually succumb to the greedy feelings of humans. During the Russian Revolution the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power from the czarist rule and destroyed all opposition, ending the rule of the Romanovs. The symbols of Napoleon and the pigs, and the nonfiction research of…

Crime and Punishment is a book set in Russia, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and focuses on a theme of alienation. The book starts when the main character- Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov- goes to a pawnbroker,Alyona Ivanovna. While there Raskolnikov trades his watch for the money he needs to pay his rent and to plan out how he could rob Alyona. This entire sequence of events makes up the exposition of Crime and Punishment and introduces alienation as the theme. From there the rising action…

words, but they accepted his explanation”. The blind ignorance and loyalty to those considered to be in charge furthers the opportunity of those who are intellectually superior to exploit those who are not as intelligent as them. As a parallel for Leon Trotsky, Snowball is presented as a passionate advocate for the ideology for “Animalism” and attempts to spread its ideology worldwide to not only improve the quality of life of those on “animal farm” but inspire revolutions internationally.…