Animal Farm
The animals drive the farmer out and take over the farm. Orwell's 1945 fable is about what happens after that.
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
A man is arrested without a charge and trapped inside rules controlled by authorities who refuse to explain them.
- 1925
About Franz Kafka
The story, briefly
Spoiler-freeJosef K. enters a legal system whose language, procedures, and standards remain just out of reach. Authority defines reality while the powerless must still obey it.
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Rules designed to make you powerless
The changing commandments of Animal Farm become an entire incomprehensible institution.
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