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Class notes from Animal Farm Socratic Seminar Question do you think old Major wouldst,’e wanted animal farm to be different than what it turned out to be? Communism made animal farm different revolution meaning abandoning humans Question Could any animal make Snowball the leader, besides Napoleon? Would the dogs follow anyone else besides the pigs?…

Gilding portrays how the evil nature of humans prevails without civilization through his characters and biblical illusions. Throughout the entire story, Ralph and Jack are prevalent characters that represent the different individuals in society. When the boys are hunting for the beast, a boar charges Ralph as he is transfixed in a daydream, but “[he]…

Both Odysseus and Aeneas are epic heroes, but their origins differ. Odysseus is from the Greek story The Odyssey by Homer, while Aeneas is a character in the Roman tale The Aenied by Virgil. Odysseus’s main objective is to return home after a long journey; on the other hand, Aeneas’s goal is to find a…

Wilfred Owen was born on 18th March 1893 in Oswestry, Britain. Wilfred Owen was a compassionate poet, his work provides the finest descriptions and critique of the soldier`s experiences during World War 1. He was killed in battle on 4th November 1918 in Ors, France, one week before the peace was declared. World War 1…

An American Tragedy: Comparing “The Crucible” and “The Scarlet Letter”An American Tragedy: Comparing “The Crucible” and “The Scarlet Letter”by: Jamie NewlandsTwo American authors, of two distinctly different time periods had onevery similar task, to turn a piece of American History into a believable tragedy. Arthur Miller with The Crucible and Nathaniel Hawthorne with The Scarlet…

These two stories are the ones where we can clearly idealize the sense of irony that happen the protagonists of the stories. Chrysanthemums by Steinbeck provide us an insight of a women Elisa who is lonely by heart and feels outside this world. She has nothing to do with all the things going around in…

Throughout the opening paragraph, the reader is introduced to a narrator who, because of his grotesque actions, has become mentally deranged and very untrustworthy, “my very senses reject their own evidence.” The narration of this story is in the first person, which would lead you to believe the narrator could be trusted to relate to…

BeowulfThe basic idea of Beowulf is the struggle between good and evil. Even though Beowulf is not even physically capable of beating Grendal he still overcomes him,because he is good. The poem starts out describing this great Meade hall, and there’s all these warriors that get drunk there. After the Meade hall is glorified it…

Being stranded on an island can be a life or death struggle. It brings up new challenges and self discovery. When a group of young boys get stranded on an island together with no adults, they must learn to live and survive as a community. Not only must they worry about food and shelter, but…

Analyses how the setting helped developed an important theme? The novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ by Scott Fitzgerald was considered by many to be an icon of its time. Fitzgerald uses the setting of the roaring sass in America to develop the theme Of the corrupt American dream. He does this through exposing corruption underlying Gatsby…