This led to Russia being in the control of the German Alexandria, who was hated by the Russian people because of her inability to speak Russian, her reliance on Grigory Rasputin, a mystic who claimed to heal her son, her antisocial, depressed attitude and a general political incompetence to rival Nicholas’s. This was a terrible mistake because it broke the faith of the people, and setting them against their leaders, which would result in them conspiring to bring down the tsardom. This last mistake of Nicholas II turned the people against him, his dynasty, and his tsardom, and the people reacted by causing the downfall of the Romanov
87). In this way, Napoleon rules like a tyrant over the animals; he takes advantage of the animals’ blind loyalty and hard work by using it for his own selfish reasons. Old Major declares that man is the cause of suffering. However, when the animals remove the alleged evil of man, the animals continue to suffer. Consequently, by removing man from the scene, the animals pave their own path towards evil.
In this paragraph I aim to prove that king John was a bad king. I believe this because John was a poor war leader because in Matthew Paris’s he is shown sitting on a campaign stool (not a throne). He also lost Normandy and many of his other lands because of his own laziness according to a quote from Matthew Paris. Secondly he was greedy for money because a quote from Gervase a monk says ‘the whole of England was taxed heavily’. He also stole from his people which suggested he is greedy.
However, it is hard to imagine how Ivan’s paranoia and constant killing caused Russia to reform for the better. Ivan’s paranoia, violent nature, and the development of the oprichnina caused him to destroy much of Russia, including the boyars, Russian agriculture and economy, and many innocent civilians. It seems as though everything Ivan achieved was for his own benefit and not the country of Russia as a whole. Ivan’s childhood was very complicated . Both of his parents died when he was very young.
Orwell’s writing makes this moment in the novel so moving, for the reader, by his use of emotive language and characterisation of the animals in relation to the Russian revolution. The allegory is able to convey the feelings of betrayal the animals felt when they realised that their reality was nothing like the utopia of animalism. Napoleon and the pigs betrayed the other animals in the novella as they went against commandments 6 and 7. Orwell wrote, at this moment in the novella, that clover accepted ‘the leadership of Napoleon’. This meant that Napoleon was above all the other animals on the farm, Napoleon was a leader; therefore, the animals had to follow what he said.
These trials were meant for the people to see and serve as a warning to any people planning to oppose Stalin. After the congress of the Victors, Stalin’s fears of the disloyalty in the party were heightened, which led to him
Prejudice is a preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience. Sometimes prejudice is a destructive force in society. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, prejudice is shown in many ways. Prejudice was shown when Atticus was defending the jail, a group of men came to kill Tom and also when Scout was getting teased at school by other kids because her dad was taking Tom’s case. Furthermore, when Tom Robinson was accused of being guilty even though he was not, and died because of it.
Gene recalls Leper saying, “‘Like a savage underneath. Like,’ now there was the blind confusion in his eyes again, a wild slyness around his mouth, ‘like that time you knocked Finny out of the tree,”’ (145). Leper knows Gene’s deepest, darkest secret that, if it got back to the boys at Devon, could ruin his life there, and throw Gene into bitter isolation. Similar to jouncing Finny off the limb, this is an accident. It was a reflex, a “survival of the fittest” reaction that Gene did out of anger, fear, and confusion.
They feared of a future German invasion. Also, they wanted control over the Baltic states (countries bordering Russia) because in both world wars Germany invaded Russia through those states because they were weak. They wanted their people in the governments of those countries so they could be relied upon. But U.S. and Britain wanted those countries to be independent, but really they did not want communism to expand. And the U.S. and Germany could not agree upon what to do with Germany, so it ended up being divided: West Germany to U.S. and Great Britain and West Germany to the Soviets.
When the children found the Lord of the Flies, not only did they use it in a harmful way, Jack, put the head on the stake in the forest as an offering to the beast where he says, “This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.” (137). Another event was when Roger killed Piggy. Roger was evidently mean from the beginning, and because of what had happened from their new “society”, Roger has changed dramatically form the cruelest kid to a murderer. Another character, Simon, also changes when he controls the pig’s head in the glade which shows that even good natured people also has an evil side to them.