Tag: classic literature

Animal Farm Was Never Anti-Communist

People often claim that Animal Farm is about how communism necessarily leads to oppression, implying that capitalism is the moral alternative— which completely ignores that in the story, the oppression the pigs brought was, explicitly, the same oppression under which the animals suffered at the beginning of the story: capitalism.

Book Review: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky | SPOILER REVIEW

The Brothers Karamazov is many things; a romantic drama, a portrait of an important cultural period, and even a murder mystery. But to me, it is first and foremost an exploration of the problem of evil and the paradox of meaning and hope in a world full of suffering.