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   parkerlee Teacher
   

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   'All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.'

   The simplistic attitude of Old Major shows that the concept of communism is indeed difficult to put into practice, as the farm animals will soon learn:

   "...we are deluding ourselves if we think we are closer to those revolutionary ideas of justice, brotherhood, and equality than were the citizens of Stalinist Russia."

   "...such descent from idealism to totalitarianism is inevitable in any violent revolution."

    - from 'Historical Setting for Orwell's Animal Farm'

      in enotes' 'Animal Farm Essays and Criticism'

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   http://www.enotes.com/animal/orwell-socialism

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   Posted by parkerlee on Thursday August 21, 2008 at 10:54 AM
   
   

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   timbrady Teacher
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   What is interesting is that all this works out quite differently in the end.  In the final chapter, the term "comrade" as a way for the animals to address each other is forbidden, and the "pigs" have taken on all the characteristics of the "men" who were enemies.  So the animals final state may be worse than their first.  They have new leaders who could care less about them, and they have been forbidden to be comrades to each other.  History may be a circle, but in their case it seems to be a descending spiral.

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   Posted by timbrady on Friday August 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM
   
   

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   shaleek Student
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   What motto does Major give the animals?

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   Posted by shaleek on Thursday December 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM