Task 1 Part A: A satire to some, but slanderous news to us: Animal Farm by George Orwell uses a plethora of satirical techniques to mock our glorious authoritarian regimes. Throughout the sequence of events, the animals live under ridiculous commandments, such as not wearing clothes or sleeping on beds. They are each automatically canceled until a modified version remains: “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL / BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS” (Orwell, Animal 133). The accompaniments of freedom, although they are a key idea for any society in transition, are ridiculed through the ambiguity of the term “equality”. Equality, in its strictest definition, places all members of society on the same socio-economic levels. “More equal than others” implies that equality can be added as a unity, and that equality can become fundamentally unequal. The later ideals of the revolt do not correspond to the original idea of ​​equality. Also in this defamatory story, situational irony is used in an attempt to mock our supreme totalitarianism. The initial revolt revolved around replacing "corrupted" humans with animals, but ultimately the opposite happens. The farm animals discover that pigs walk on two legs, contrary to all previous norms and laws. Simply put, at a party between pigs and other farmers, “the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” (139). In the case of Animal Farm, the encounter between humans and pigs represents the failure of the revolution, since it was originally about getting rid of humans. Humans, the antithesis of their society, are reincarnated through Napoleon, the leader who promised them change, leaving the animal...... middle of paper ......ld History in context. ParGale Group. Np: Cengage Learning, 2014. N. pag. World history in context. Internet. April 3, 2014. Littau, Stephen. “Despots say the craziest things.” The Liberty Papers. Ed. Brad Warbiany. WordPress, May 31, 2007. Web. March 30, 2014. .Orwell, George. Animal farm. New York: Signet Classic, 1996. Print.- - -. “Politics and the English Language.” George Orwell. O. Dag, November 4, 1999. Web. March 29, 2014. "Robespierre, Maximilien." Terrorism Reference Library. Ed. Matthew May, James L. Outman and Elisabeth M. Outman. Flight. 3: Primary sources. Detroit: UXL, 2003. 47-53. World history in context. Internet. March 30, 2014. Walters, Suzi. History of Western cultures. Mont-Liban High School. Department of Social Studies. November 13 2013.