Comparison between Animal Farm and The Chrysalids.

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In our contemporary civilization, literature plays an important and impacting role in our daily lives. Adapting to the different likes and tastes of modern day society, books and novels have different types and genres, all having in common the objective to please the reader and to convey morals and themes to the audience. In the 20th century were written two novels, The Chrysalids and Animal Farm, which will be compared and contrasted in the following essay, showing utopian and dystopian societies. The comparison between both novels will be done via the contrast and comparison of the themes the authors try to convey to their audience through their literary work.
The term “utopia” was first introduce by Sir Thomas More in 1516 who chose it as the title of his book which describes the ideal or perfect society. Ironically, the term was coined from Greek words which, literally translated, mean “no place”.
 A dystopia (the opposite of utopia) is a fictional society, usually portrayed as existing in a future time, when the conditions of life are extremely bad due to deprivation, oppression, or terror.  Both novels have a rich variety of themes, some of which corresponding with each other in both novels such as power and corruption, violence and fear, just to name a few.

Power and corruption is a strong and prominent theme in both novels.That power corrupts is an inevitable conclusion of Animal Farm. When the pigs took over they claimed that their goal was to preside over a farm of equal animals, all working together to support one another. However, as time went along, the pigs abused their power and used it for their own gains. The transition in control from Snowball to Napoleon represents the corruption of the race of pigs from sound leadership to corrupt dictatorship.

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 “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership.... At last the day came... at this moment Napoleon stood up.., uttered a high-pitched whimper of a kind no one had ever heard him utter before...... It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there.... But the luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream...were no longer talked about. Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism.”

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