literature from outside sources. The idea for a story could come from

family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity.

For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events,

the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the

event that they want to dramatize. George Orwell and Charles Dickens

wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express

their disillusionment with society and human nature. Animal Farm,

written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal fable of a farm in

which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an

example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized

the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He

anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart

in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of

literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent

theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately,

human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly

ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describ

events in real history. Given the right conditions, those events could

impending doom, as she records the names of all those who are to die

aristocracy. This is confirmed in the conversation between the

A Tale of Two Cities is a love story which chronicles the lives of

farms represent two of the countries on the global stage with Russia

They seem to be saying, that even when we begin with honourable

the animals. Orwell criticized Germany, representing it as Pinchfield

do I know what injury you have done to my horses."(Dickens, 111) He

revolutionaries: " Well, well, but one must stop somewhere. After all,

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