These two books, despite the vastly different themes and story lines, both display similar meanings. Orwell's story tells of farmyard disorder and the fatal lives of a group of farmyard animals. It is just as politically minded as Golding's tale of a life or death situation for a group of boys stranded on an island left with the supposed task of installing democracy into their new lives.
The two books display themes of a slightly similar nature. They both focus on certain points, they both revolve around vague diplomacy, and democracy and sovereignty and both shed an eye opening, frightening light on drastic realities like in Animal Farm' where "executions went on repeatedly". They show that the world that we live in is predominantly run by these who have the strength of mind, and character to brush the emotionally weak aside, in order to go for their goals. These people posses a killer instinct that take them one step further towards a safer life. The leader of the pack in Orwell's book is Napoleon the pig. He does not start out this way but he does seize control and is thus likened to both Napoleon Bonaparte, the French dictator, and Stalin, the Communist, Russian dictator. Napoleon considered the other animals to be inferior, a lower class of beings that were only good enough to accept orders. An example of Napoleons pure callousness is a scene, after the explosion of Snowball where Napoleon invokes a meeting and the confession of crimes from the animals. He followed this up by having the animals slaughtered on the spot. "And so the tale of confessions and slaughters continued until there was a pile of corpses laying before Napoleons feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood." This shows just how cruel and power hungry Napoleon really was. Alternatively in Golding's tale, the leader, Ralph, is a much more laid back character, although he does possess the sinister undertones of a possible evil presence. His means of being bad are a...
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