Many people, including intellectuals and celebrities, were arraigned before the court, ostracized and condemned.Many people in America were frightened by communism post WW2.Senator Joseph McCarthy gained popularity by claiming there was a communist threat from Russia.Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory of the Soviet Union during the Russian Revolution.Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, which tells about the strange customs of made-up countries, but he was really criticizing things about his own country, the UK. It is often used as a way of criticizing things or people where it would not be possible to do so directly. People have to use their imagination to understand what it is trying to say.
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