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Mizz_Russia
03-06-2006, 12:27 PM
Can someone plz help me . Im writing an essay on animal farm & how its impossible to created a utopian society.

Can someome give me main points & proof from the book with them PLZ.

THX a bunch

&&& if neone is kind enough to write me the essay i would greatly appreciate it! :banana:

Mizz_Russia
03-06-2006, 05:43 PM
anyone??????????

WhimsySA
03-10-2006, 12:31 PM
Well I guess you could say that you can't create a utopian society because that would be saying that we as humans are perfect, and to be perfectly frank with you, WE AREN'T!!! I guess the only thing that could be said about a perfect society is that it will probably never happen, since if it did there would be no laws or rules or boundaries & everyone would be unhappy in some way or another because of what another person does or says. Think about it. :nod:

P.S. Hope this helps a little

Whifflingpin
03-10-2006, 02:03 PM
It may or may not be possible to create a utopian society, indeed, utopian societies may have existed.

A work of fiction does not provide proof of anything, except the writer's ability to write. It may provide illustration of a theory or opinion.

Animal Farm is, partly at least, an analogy of the progress of communism in mid 20th century Russia, so it illustrates the transmutation of a communist ideal into Stalinism, in a way that is more accessible, say than Koestler's "Darkness at Noon." I cannot imagine how you are expected to discuss that in a school or college in Russia.

Now the helpful bit, maybe, taking the book to refer to utopias in general.

You could start by describing the initial state of the farm, particularly noting the things that needed changing.
Then describe the original ideal - who, in the book, proposed the ideal? how was it supposed to remedy the problems?
How was the ideal state brought about, initially? Did that bring with it the causes of its own failure?
What problems did the ideal state face from outside the farm, and from inside?
How did it meet those problems?
How similar/different was the final state to/from the first?

The book shows that utopias are impossible if you think that utopias have to follow the same pattern. Does an ideal state have to start with a revolution? Will any ideal state have the same problems? Will the state have to deal with problems in the same way?

OK, that is just one approach you could use, provided that you have read the book.