Leon Spinks

“Optimism is the strongest building material on Earth because nothing gets built without it,” states Oldcastle Corporation, an Irish building company. The quote above elucidates upon the pivotal driving force that proves to be a common ingredient that underlies rewarding construction experiences. Whether it be the capricious nature of straw or wavering tendencies of sticks, such components undermine the general complexion of an edifice: a reality that is typically complemented by an increased…

In Animal Farm, the idea of oppression and control seem to come up frequently. This is evident through Orwell’s use of propaganda as well as the ruling of the pigs. For example, Orwell uses several propaganda techniques. He uses bandwagon/snobbery, transfer, and misuse or manipulation of statistics. All these techniques Orwell uses, convey a message about Stalin’s Great Purge and Communism. Although this story is more negative than positive, it can also be viewed positively. It can be viewed as…

Fear is the most effective means of governing. Fear can be used to manipulate people, bending them to what the person who is using it, wants them to do. Napoleon from the novel, Animal Farm, uses fear and manipulation to keep the others from questioning his orders and how he came to power, and it shows to have a powerful impact. The animals start to see Napoleon as a perfect, all-powerful being that they fear and even end up praising. Controlling others becomes easy when one knows their fears.…

The Hunter And The Unicorn By: Vincent Marchetti: THIS IS CRINGE WORTHY!!!! One day in the middle of the woods Captain Bob of the unicorn team said, “We need to find this hunter Ragugu. He has taken too many lives of our kind. We need to split up.” So, team unicorn split up and tried to take Ragugu down. On the way team member Bob said, “I should go alone because as all of you know, I am obviously the most ripped, and it would be safer for this rookie Ray to go with Dude and Dudette. So off…

Animal farm is a novella written by George Orwell, following the figurative battle between mankind and animal, and the yearning for a utopian society. A farm of animals decides that they have put up with humans taking advantage of their capabilities to produce food, for too long. The animals rebel and take control banishing the farmers, Mr. Jones and his wife. At first their lives improve tremendously, and all the animals are treated equal. But soon enough, a pig named Napoleon takes over. He…

Animal Farm is an allegory that tells the story of animals on a farm that rise up against their master. It is an allegory that is used to describe the overthrow of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas ll, and the communist revolution of Russia before WW ll. The animals on the farm are depicted to show the wrongs done by humans such as greed and lies during the revolution. It shows how easily the powerful and the educated can change the views of society. The animals form seven cardinal rules for each…

The 1946 novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is famous for its metaphorical critiques on dictatorships, and is specifically comparable to the events in Russia after the rebellion against the Romanov empire thirty years prior. However, another dictatorship could also be easily compared to Orwell’s book; modern-day North Korea shares many common traits of dictatorship with Animal Farm. In the story of Animal Farm, the animals of the Manor Farm lived under the care of the alcoholic…

Regina Emeli Honors English 9 Motinola Agunbiade 1 September 2015 Animal Farm Does the overthrow of a corrupt government or leader solve the issues embedded within that society? In Animal Farm, this was believed so. “Is it not crystal clear, comrades that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of man, and the produce of our labor would be our own” (Orwell 9). This belief allowed for the leaders of Animal Farm to abuse their power while the other…

An allegory to me is when a book is written when the author does not come out and just states something point blank. They say it in a roundabout way. When you are trying to interpret what Orwell was trying to say to his audience of readers, you have to ask yourself what is Animal Farm an allegory of? It is representing the Russian Revolution and Animal Farm is a tale of where the animals are based upon certain figureheads and leaders from that time period. It was published in the 1940s when the…

The plot of Animal Farm is closely linked to the Russian Revolution of 1917. It started off with good intentions of trying to get the animals better living conditions for a situation where the animals themselves are exploited by the very animals whose ‘duty’ was to protect and care for them. Before the animals had any power at all, they were all living in constant fear of Farmer Jones as he was abusive and did not care about the wellbeing of the animals in his farm. The old Major provides the…