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Essay / Comparison of communism in Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Finnerty is an old friend of Paul's from college, who is fed up with the current system. Coming from a poor family and only achieving success thanks to his brilliant mind, he has seen both sides of the spectrum. He sides with the Ghost Shirt Society and guides Paul to become the leader. Boxer correlates with Finnerty in that he represents the proletariat. The proletariat represents the working class. In the statement "Marx and Vonnegut understood that the dissatisfied population will explode and, when it becomes self-aware, will find that it has nothing to lose except its chains", Orwell could add, made by Matthew Gannon. The working class is bound by chains can be shown in both novels. In Vonnegut's novel, the farm is the Protelariat or the working class could be classified as bound by chains in the sense that they are the only ones who see the social problems caused by these chains. the mechanics. They can't do anything about it because once they're on the farm, they very rarely leave. Having Paul in the Ghost Shirt Society gives them the opportunity to break free from the chains that appear in Orwell's novel. the mistreatment they suffered at the hands of Mr. Jones. The "in" that the characters in Orwell's novel were Old Major being so old, he was able to obtain all the information necessary for the revolution to happen, or.