George Orwell understood the true meaning of torture and the way Stalin used it. The way O'Brian tortured Winston and the way Stalin tortured his prisoners were extremely similar. ... Orwell here clearly criticizes Stalin's methods. Orwell's here critiques Stalin' methods. Here, Orwell here argues that these methods used by Stalin are not effective because brainwashing prisoners does not always help the country because Stalin's victims still died as martyrs. ...

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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. ... Equally important, one needs to highlight the parallelism between events in this fable and the political and social situation in the Soviet Union under the reign of Joseph Stalin. ... Through his narra...

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Napoleon resembles the mad dictator known as Joseph Stalin, and Snowball, who was betrayed by Napoleon and banished from the farm (Russia), is an allegory of Trotsky. ... The rest of the animals also play certain parts in the parallel; Boxer as the working class, Molly as White Russia (those who fled Russia), and Napoleon's three vicious dogs are characters of the secret police of Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). ... The hen's revolt against Napoleon when he decides to sell the eggs corresponds to the feudal lords' revolt against Stalin when he makes farming collective. ...

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Meanwhile, totalitarian regimes, such as Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalin Soviet Union in the first half of twentieth-century, try to control every aspect of lives of their citizens by establishing absolute power (The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern History 1789-1945). ...

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In George Orwell's novel, "1984," it shows a world of deep government control. A world where thoughts can be perceived as treason and language is rewritten to prevent individualism; a world opposite of utopia, and dystopian world. A totalitarian government is in placed ruling the people by psycholog...

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The Mask of Deceit A Literary Analysis on 1984 Throughout history, there have been numerous leaders who have exercised oppressive control over their country. It cannot be denied that the rule of those such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin have been both oppressive and evil. However, if question...

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Winston Smith from 1984 and John from Brave New World find themselves similarly unable to fit into their societies because they disagree the way their government rules George Orwell's 1984 was a magnified projection into the future of a present that contained Stalinism and an immediate past that had witnessed the flowering of Nazism, where the society was controlled almost exclusively by punishment and the fear of punishment. ...

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Big Brother acts as the enigmatic leader of The Party, and his presence is constant in one form or another: his face (which is described in the novel as being remarkably similar to that of former Russian dictator Josef Stalin, no coincidence on author George Orwell's part given his heavy anti-Stalinist sentiments) is plastered on posters all over the country, along with the now-infamous tagline 'Big Brother is watching you'. ...

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