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person or society. This paper compares two satirical works, Gullivers Travels by Jonathon Swift and Animal Farm by George Orwell. Discussion Perhaps the two greatest differences between these books
are the tone of the satire, and the targets of the authors. Those readers used to Swiftian satire, which is pointed but also very comic, may be taken aback by
the much darker tone of Orwells story. Also, Swift is criticizing the mores of his society; Orwell has taken aim at a much narrow target: Communism as it was being
developed in the Soviet Union in the 1940s. In his preface to Animal Farm, Russell Baker notes that the book came out of Orwells experiences fighting the Communists in
Spain; that gave him a very different picture of them than was generally held by the British public at the time (Baker). Orwell thought that the West had a "dangerously
romantic" view of the Soviets; the book is "[A]n attack on the myth of the nobility of Soviet communism" and it became "one of the centurys most devastating literary acts
of political destruction" (Baker vi). The main characters of Animal Farm, Napoleon and Snowball, are clearly modeled on Lenin and Trotsky, and the animals story follows exactly that of
the two men: At first Snowball is Napoleons trusted companion; soon he becomes a rival; finally, Napoleon has him killed (Orwell). At the beginning of the book, Old Major, a
pig, gives a speech to the other animals that is clearly nothing but pure Marxism. He lists all the things that are wrong on the farm, saying that the animals
are worked until they drop and then slaughtered; they are nothing more than workers to be exploited until they no longer provide a profit (Orwell). "Only get rid of Man,
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