Animal Farm and Strummer
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Different forms of rebellion have occurred throughout history because of a desire for change from an imperfect reality to a vision of a perfect world. This idea is explored throughout Julien Temple’s 2007 biographical documentary Strummer: the future is unwritten (Strummer) and George Orwell’s modernist allegory Animal Farm (1945), in which Orwell satirises the events surrounding the Russian Revolution. It is through an interaction with the texts that responders are able to challenge their own beliefs regarding rebellion and the reasons for its existence in modern and contemporary society.
The idea of hatred towards a conformist society as a driving force of individual and community rebellion is a notion that is demonstrated in Orwell’s Animal Farm and Temples Strummer. In the events that follow the rebellion of the animals within Animal Farm, one of the novels leading protagonists Snowball, adopts the idea of utilising propaganda as a means of influencing the animals to rebel against the humans: “Four legs Good, two legs bad”. It is this idea that the pigs continuously attempt to convince the animals, signifying that human beings are the common enemy, reflected the subtle reference to two legs in contrast to four legs. The sheep are an example of the group within the animal society whose trust has been taken advantage of as a means to emphasize the pigs belief of the corruption of the social system. The repetition of “Two legs baa-d” is an example of the ironic control that the pigs have gained over the sheep. As expressed by the noteworthy character Old Major, rebellion is considered the path to freedom. In overthrowing the human race, he was of the belief that the animals will become “rich and free”. Moreover Old Major stresses the notion that the animals must reject co-dependence with man in order to overthrow their social standings in the hierarchy; “All men are enemies. All enemies are comrades”. This motto is a metaphoric reference to the foundations for...
The idea of hatred towards a conformist society as a driving force of individual and community rebellion is a notion that is demonstrated in Orwell’s Animal Farm and Temples Strummer. In the events that follow the rebellion of the animals within Animal Farm, one of the novels leading protagonists Snowball, adopts the idea of utilising propaganda as a means of influencing the animals to rebel against the humans: “Four legs Good, two legs bad”. It is this idea that the pigs continuously attempt to convince the animals, signifying that human beings are the common enemy, reflected the subtle reference to two legs in contrast to four legs. The sheep are an example of the group within the animal society whose trust has been taken advantage of as a means to emphasize the pigs belief of the corruption of the social system. The repetition of “Two legs baa-d” is an example of the ironic control that the pigs have gained over the sheep. As expressed by the noteworthy character Old Major, rebellion is considered the path to freedom. In overthrowing the human race, he was of the belief that the animals will become “rich and free”. Moreover Old Major stresses the notion that the animals must reject co-dependence with man in order to overthrow their social standings in the hierarchy; “All men are enemies. All enemies are comrades”. This motto is a metaphoric reference to the foundations for...