Althusser goes further in his analysis to assert that this intricate relationship between the governor and the governed causes the latter to unconsciously accept predetermined identities of subjugation through a given ideology propagated by the state. ... The poem "Comrade Napoleon" along with the "Seven Commandments" indicate the vital role religion and literature can play as ideological state apparatuses in disciplining the masses. ... These two poems, in fact, constitute the driving forces behind the two major patterns of attitudes of the animals in the novel, namely revolution and submissi...

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