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As in Egypt, Orwell demonstrates through his allegorical novel “Animal Farm” that leaders are able to establish and maintain power over a people, and in turn create an oppressive and corrupt government system.
Orwell shows the significant difference in the education and levels of knowledge in the animals, and how the government takes advantage of this difference. The split between the levels of intelligence is portrayed in the first chapter when the idea of rebellion is sparked: “… the stupidest of them had already picked up the tune and a few words, and as for the clever ones, such as the pigs and the dogs, they had the entire song by heart within a few minutes” (Orwell 13). When Old Major --the spark that set fire to the idea of revolution-- dies, the claimed more intelligent animals of the farm begin to long for a rebellion: “Major’s speech had given to the more intelligent animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life... they saw clearly that it was their duty to prepare for it” (Orwell 15). The animals who seem to be on the less- knowledgeable/ less- educated side of the spectrum are not as much affected by this. They go on with life, and the pigs are able to establish an oppressive regime because of the other animals’ ignorance and disinterest in the topic of the farm’s well being. The pigs do not try to dissuade the animals in the pursuit of being educated; however, they do encourage the animals to be complacent with their lack of knowledge (Orwell 34). The animals are therefore unable to have opinions or take part in discussion for the welfare of the whole community.
In Egypt, the political system was based on a one man dictator, Hosni Mubarak, who held his regime for 30 years. He governed the citizens of Egypt, a...
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J. Brown’s Paradigm for National Development define the Identifiable People Group of a Nationalistic movement based on four main criteria: language, race, history, and location. These characteristics often serve to demonstrate how and why people united. In the case of Egypt’s revolution, the Identifiable People Group lacks any major ethnic or racial divisions, and though historically there have been tensions between Christians and Muslims, both parties orchestrated the revolution, so the IPG lacked Egypt’s traditional religious divisions. Racially, Egypt’s population is 99.6% Egyptian according to the 2006 census, and historically, the majority of the population has been Arabia since the seventh century. Ninety percent of Egyptians practice Islam, and the in Tahrir majority of them are Sunni. All of the people lived in a geographically well defined area, Egypt, and though Cairo was the epicenter of protests, Egyptians traveled from all over the country to take part in Tahrir Square Protests, and protests occurred throughout the country. Also, Arabic is both the official and most common language of Eg...
First, political Islam has rogue Egypt and held it down, suffocating the country, not allowing it to stand a chance. President Hosni Mubarak was ousted and people thought that Egypt was getting better. It has not been the case. While Zaki lives in faded luxury and chases women, Bothayna endures sexual harassment while working as a shop assistant to provide for her poor family after the death of her father. Meanwhile her boyfriend, Taha, son of the building's janitor, is rejected by the police and decides to join a radical Islamic group. Egypt is heading towards a bottomless abyss. Everything is controlled by the elite. Jobs are no more; it is preserved for the top. This increases the plight of the people and leads them into committing some of the acts seen in Islam as bad or as a taboo. The political elite are crashing its opponents and ensuring that whoever com...
He hopes to “restore dignity” to the Egyptian people after the Muslim Brotherhood (The Week Staff).
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The pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm use specific laws, use unknown vocabulary and excruciating detail, implement scare tactics, and create and manipulate law to successfully attain the other animal’s trust, acquire certain luxuries unavailable to most animal, and establish themselves as the dictators of a totalitarian-like society. Through using detail, unknown vocabulary, specific laws, and scare tactics, the pigs acquire the ability to drink alcohol, sleep on beds, eat and drink the milk and apples, destroy Snowball’s credibility, and establish a trust between themselves and the other animals. From Orwell’s Animal Farm, one realizes how leaders with absolute power use carefully manipulated language to abuse their power.
Orwell's book, "Animal Farm", is full of satire. This satire is Orwell's way of communicating problems and resolutions. The main message in Animal Farm is that power cannot be divided equally. There will never be equality for all. Once power is obtained it is always abused, and power causes all to think as the leader does. Equality does not exist, for it is impossible for everyone to be equal.
Zayan, J. (2011, February 14). Egypt Activists and Army Discuss Reforms. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved December 7, 2013, from http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/egypt-activists-and-army-discuss-reforms-20110214-1as8u.html
Lord Acton, the British historian once said, “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the author gives many examples of how power is used to manipulate and produce fear. In this book the main character, Napoleon, became a master of using various tactics to gain and maintain power over the rest of the animals. Napoleon used propaganda, manipulation and fear to gain more loyalty and power throughout the farm.
The animals in the book “Animal Farm” hoped to achieve unity, equality. trust/truth, prosperity, better quality of life, freedom and individuality, in terms of the revolution. This was achieved at the beginning of the revolution, which made it a success, but in the end the revolution was a failure. The farm, in many ways, was very prosperous when the revolution began. The animals were given an education, “the reading and writing classes were however a great success,” which made them feel equal to the humans because they were now learning in the same way the humans did.
Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is a fable about rulers and the ruled, oppressors and the oppressed, and an idea betrayed. The particular meaning given will depend partly on the political beliefs- “political” in the deepest sense of the word. The book is there to be enjoyed about how human beings can best live together in this world. The novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, successfully combines the characteristics of three literary forms-the fable, the satire and the allegory.
The. Arab Social Media Report -. 1(1), p. 3 (ed.). [online] Available at: http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/dsg/unpan044212.pdf. [Accessed: 2 May, 2014.] Aday, S. et al. 2012.
I have seen Egyptian Jihane Noujaim’s documentary Control Room several times, and each time it was emotionally difficult to watch. The cinema verité technique used by the director accurately captures the feeling among the Arab news media as one of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”
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