How Does Animal Farm By George Orwell Affect America

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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” (George Orwell). George Orwell lived from 1903 to 1950. During this era there were many political dilemmas occuring in the world, especially in Russia with Stalin and Marxism. Even though these occurred in the Soviet Union, it still greatly affected America, because the Soviet Union and the US were in the Cold War around this time. George Orwell’s work brings up the conversation of some of these political issues and their influence on America. He has two full length novels: 1984, published in 1950, and Animal Farm, published in 1945. 1984 displays a dystopian future, something Orwell is warning against in this story. Animal Farm is a metaphor for the Soviet Union and Marxist ideals at the time. Orwell uses farm animals to tell this story. He was by far one of the authors with the most significant impact …show more content…

In Animal Farm, a boar named Old Major expresses his desire for no animals to live under human beings. He passes away and three pigs named Snowball, Squealer, and Napoleon decide to carry on his legacy by enforcing the ideas of “animalism.” At first, the farm performs well, but as time passes, the animals find themselves becoming closer to human beings and the difference between the pigs and humans is negligible. Author Marie Macnee calls the novel a deceptively simple animal fable about a barnyard revolt that satirizes the consequences of the Russian Revolution while suggesting why most revolutionary ideals fail (2017). The book was seen as a metaphor or symbol to what was occuring in the Soviet Union at the time. It was published in 1945, therefore the same political issues occuring in the Soviet Union were addressed by Orwell. Although Animal Farm received noteworthy recognition, it did not leave the same impact that 1984 did. It still had a serious impact and changed the way people viewed Marxist ideals at this

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