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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Questions about Animal Farm

Are there any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?

I don't think that there is a country that has the same situation as Animal Farm. Animal Farm was written based on Russia's situation a long time ago and there is no country in current times that uses the same government systems as Russia used to use. So the closest I can get to a similar situation is North Korea. This is only because North Korea still has dictatorship and brain washing. But if you look at Animal Farm's situation in a different way you could say that every country has the same situation. Every country has rulers, corruptness, common people working their backs off for their country, government people cheating from the goods common people made, etc. Everything that goes on secretly is the same that happened in Animal Farm.
No, the book does not say how this problem can be fixed. In Animal Farm the farm became poorer and poorer while the pigs didn't submit and ask for help to the people. They stubbornly tried to show off while it was obvious that in a few years Animal Farm would no longer exist. Showing off, lying, and cheating are all part of man's nature. I don't think you can really correct that in a person.

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