Animal Farm, The Focus: The Seven Commandments (and their alterations)., The Medium: The Written Word., The Architecture of Power: Power is maintained by actively rewriting history and law to suit the ruling class (the pigs). It is power through manipulation., Key Example: "All animals are equal" changing to "...but some animals are more equal than others.", Things Fall Apart, The Focus: Igbo Proverbs and Oral Tradition., The Medium: The Spoken Word., The Architecture of Power: Power is maintained through shared cultural wisdom and complex language. It is power through tradition. This architecture crumbles when a new, dominant language (English/Colonial law) silences it., Key Example: The adage that "proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten," contrasted with the end where Obierika cannot express his grief to the District Commissioner because they share no common language..

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