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Ultimately, the  animals’ rebellion is forgotten. One tyrant has replaced the former tyrant. The commandments are subsumed into one, Orwell’s ultimate irony!  The twentieth-century philosopher George Santayana has famously remarked that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” After we have discussed the novel, assign a short paragraph that applies this insight to the novel. Here is one 9th grade student’s response: These words directly relate to Animal Farm. After Napoleon has been reigning for many…..

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