1. Marxism and Animal Farm
In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relationship, in the modern context, between the governed and the governor. ... Althusser insists, however, that, though unconsciously, subjects abide by the ideological stance of the state not out of free will but rather out of fear of punishment. ... This stresses the ability of the fable as a literary genre to implicitly point to controversial concerns, which assigns the book its immortality....
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- Grade Level: Graduate