With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... Althusser's theory can be applied to the sociopolitical situation in the farm. ... Their significant persuasive impact on the animals typifies the ability of language to propagate and maintain ide...

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