Many authors receive their inspiration for writing their .
The idea for a story could come from.
family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity. .
For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events, .
the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the .
event that they want to dramatize. George Orwell and Charles Dickens .
wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express .
their disillusionment with society and human nature. Animal Farm, .
written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal fable of a farm in .
which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an .
example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized .
the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He .
anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart .
in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of .
literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent .
theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, .
human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly.
ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, .
even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of.
us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian .
attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable.
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet .
system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] .
valued . . ."(Gardner, 106) Orwell noted that " there exists in .
England almost no literature of disillusionment with the Soviet .
Union.' Instead, that country is viewed either with ignorant .
disapproval' or with uncritical admiration.'"(Gardner, 96) The.
basic synopsis is this: Old Major, an old boar in Manor Farm, tells .
the other animals of his dream of "animalism": " . . . Only get.
rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own.
