Animal Farm: Satire, Fable and Political Allegory? Do you interpret the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell to be a satire, fable or a political...

Clearly, there
are all three elements in 's .  With such characters such as , who
represents Stalin, and , who is representative of Lenin, Orwell's narrative in anof the
communist Soviet Union.  In this allegory, Orwell examines and satirizes the subversion and
manipulation of the meaning of words that Communist Russia promulgated.  , who "could turn
black into white," is the propagandist.   

The "fairy tale" is
really a masque for the biting politicalof the Communist regime.

1) how does setting function in a story? 2)What is the theme of the story? What in the story suggests this theme? 3)What role does setting play in...

Here are some
additional observations on setting and theme:

Setting:

The significance of the setting of
Hemingway's story is certainly suggested in the fact that it is given the priority of being the
title. The "clean, well-lighted place" serves the lonely old man as a refuge from the
nothingness of life and the bleakness of his own life. He is reluctant to leave the cafe because
he feels sheltered from the "nada" while he is in the lighted and clean cafe, and he
can forget temporarily his alienated condition. This condition the old waiter understands as he,
too, has nothing as a way of life:  

It was a nothing that
he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was
all it needed and a certain cleanness and order.

He tells
the young waiter, "Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be some one who
needs the cafe." For, cleanliness, light, and order act as defenses against the horror of
the "nada," the nothingness to life. And, coming to the "clean, well-lighted
place" as a routine gives some meaning to the old man.

Certainly,
setting is the most important element of this story since it carries implications that extend to
both character and theme. 

Theme:

After the disillusionment and destruction of World War II, Hemingway feels that the
future can only find value if new and better values, purer values could be established from the
disorder of the world. This is the meaning of theof the "Our Father":

Give us this nada our
daily nada and nada us
our nada as
we nada ournadas and nada us not
into nada but deliver us from nada; pues
nada. Hail nothing....

Out of nothing,
perhaps, ethical conduct and order can be re-established. For, without attachments, humanity may
be able to attain a level of virtue, and thus, nothing can become the only
"order."

Another interpretation of the old man is that he is
symbolic of the old values and psychology. Now effete and in despair, like the Germans and
Allied Forces alike, the old man comes to the well-lighted place in order to clear his mind of
the dark confusion of thought in the aftermath of war. Unable to make sense of the horrors of
war, all that the old man (the war-weary countries) can do is hold at bay the
"nada"--the negative experiences--that threatens to disillusion and overcome
him.

Foreshadowing In Of Mice And Men

In
bythat the one woman in the narrative is going to be trouble is clearly
suggested in .  Here are some examples of :

1. One day as the men glance up,
they see a girl standing in the doorway.  Her posture indicates that she is flirtatious, and her
manner suggests that she is looking for more than Curley when she repeatedly comes
around.

She put her hands behind her back and leaned
against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward.  "You're the new fellas that
just come, ain't ya?"...

She smiled archly and twitched her body. 
"Nobody...

From Spinelli's Stargirl, what qualities about a person make them attractive? Why do you think Stargirl is attracted to Leo?

There are
usually two reasons for why people are attracted to each other: either they find a lot of
similarities in one another's characters and/or personalities, or opposites simply attract. For
Leo,is attracted to him because she knows he is similar to her. They are both non-conformists;
that is to say, they are unique individuals and not followers. For example, the student body of
Mica Area High School ebs and flows with whatever or whomever is popular at the time. They are
fair-weather fans, one might say. When someone hates Stargirl, for instance, people treat her
without respect, but she doesn't care. Also, when everyone seems to hate Stargirl, Leo doesn't
share their disgust with her. Leo is the only one who can see past the prairie dress and the odd
name. For example, when Stargirl says she will go on the interview show called Hot
Seat, Leo says the following:

"First I was
surprised. This didn't fit my impression of her. I didn't know that this was an early glimpse of
something I was soon to see much more of: behind the dazzling talents and differentness, she was
far more normal than I had realized" (43).

Stargirl,
therefore, must be attracted to Leo because she knows that he can see her for who she is.
Everyone in the student body can't get over the fact that she dresses differently and doesn't
live according to the majority's way of thinking. Leo understands this to a certain point, which
allows his heart to be open to her invitations to be friends. It's not until classmates shun Leo
and Stargirl for dating that Leo loses some of his individualistic tendencies. But in the
beginning, not only is Stargirl attracted to Leo's looks, but she is attracted to his open,
although somewhat shy, personality.

In 1984, who is Goldstein?

According
to the Party, Emmanuel Goldstein was a former member who left to form what is referred to in
hushed tones as the "Brotherhood," a sort of dissident organization. Goldstein, as a
former insider, supposedly wrote a book called The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical
Collectivism, which explained how the Party exerts its control over the people, and
suggested a means by which it might be overthrown.reads the book after finding it in a shop
among the proles. Much like Big Brother, it seems that Goldstein is a fabrication of the Party
itself. His face is held up as a figure for derision during the daily Two Minutes of Hate, and
much of the "theory" described in his supposedly subversive book is exposed as a lie
by , who tells Winston that the Party is without ideology except that of power for its own sake.
Goldstein is portrayed to the Party members as a constant threat, always plotting against the
Party, and it is likely that this supposed threat is a means to create the constant sense of
crisis that sustains the Party. In any case, the hope that Winston feels after reading
Goldstein's supposed book is quickly crushed.

Why is Meg the most suitable person to go to Camazotz?

When Charles
Wallace is left behind on Camazotz under the power of the evil IT, Meg realizes that she is the
most suitable person to try to retrieve him and bring him back home. This is because she knows
him better than anyone else and also because she has been to Camazotz. Her father has been gone
so long that he and Charles Wallace don't really know each other anymore. Calvin only recently
became involved with the Murry family, so he hasn't had enough time to get to know Charles
Wallace all that well either. Meg, therefore, is the one person left with knowledge of Camzotz
who is close to Charles Wallace. Charles Wallace also understands her well. If anyone is going
to be able to break through IT's mind control to reach the real Charles Wallace, Meg has the
best chance. As she says:

it has to be me. It can't be
anyone else. I don't understand Charles, but he understands me. I'm the one who's closest to
him. Father's been away for so long, since Charles Wallace was a baby. They don't know each
other. And Calvin's only known Charles for such a little time.

Compare the characterization of Ulysses and Telemachus in Tennyson's "Ulysses."

For
Tennyson, the most evident mode of comparison between both figures is that they are both
leaders. It becomes evident in the poem that Tennyson sees both figures as leaders of Ithaca. is
the traditional leader of the island, while Telemachus has been elevated to a point where he is
now leader, as well.  Yet, it is here where there is some pivot.  In his words, Ulysses sees
Telemachus as more equipped to handle the administrative and...