Saturday, April 7, 2007

Animal Farm: Entry 2

--Are there are 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"?

This book is a good example to show how tyrant rules over the country or society. In this book, there is a farm called Animal Farm because this farm is controlled by animals, not by human. Animals take over the farm by having a riot against human master of the farm, and then they choose two pigs for their leaders, Napoleon and Snowball. Most of animals follow Snowball, and Napoleon. Later on, Napoleon frightens Snowball out of the farm by ferocious dogs and becomes the tyrant. Napoleon and his men don’t work while other animals work for food, and they live in luxurious house while other animals live in a shabby farm. They also lie to other animals, so they can implant their good images into other animals.
Again, North Korea would be a similar situation for this book. As I answered this question for Fahrenheit 451, North Korea’s government lies to the resident; the government tells only what they want say. They say North Korea is strong countries, but in fact, it isn’t. Authorities of North Korea live splendid lives while residents live poorly. Therefore, the situation in North Korea would be similar to this book.
(North Korea is famous for its tyrannical leader Kim Jung Il, so the situation in North Korea has similarity to those books about dystopia)

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