Debra’s opening quotation is from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a novel in which the “pigs” get fat and prosperous and the “horses” are worked to death. In the novel, “pigs” and “horses” are metaphors for “capitalists” and “workers.” Animal Farm, an extended allegory, was written and published in 1946. In general, those were “dark days,” […]
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Posted May 31, 2015 in Uncategorized Charles Dickens opens A Tale of Two Cities with one of the best-known lines in all of English literature: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of […] |
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