does not feel deeply such horrors in their satirized form in Orwell's novel/fairy story.
For example, both Orwell and Spiegelman deal with events centered around the most basic of human needs, and how these needs are met or denied in the concentration camps of Nazism versus the animal farm representing Soviet totalitarianism. The pig leaders on the animal farm gradually begin to grant themselves certain privileges, such as sleeping in beds, when previously all the animals had agreed that sleeping in beds was completely forbidden because such a practice is thoroughly human and therefore despicable. The pigs finagle and rationalize their way around this commandment, and the other animals immediately are persuaded "and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds" (Orwell 70). We might chuckle quietly at such a satirical send-up of the corruption of power and the rhetoric used by Soviet leaders to justify their own privileges, b
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