# Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Animal Farm uses fable to depict revolutionary ideals captured by a new ruling class. Nineteen Eighty-Four imagines institutions that control records, language, surveillance, and private loyalty; both criticize totalitarian mechanisms rather than politics in every form.

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