Topic > Comparison of Communism in Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano

Finnerty is Paul's old friend from college, who is fed up with the current system. Coming from a poor family and having succeeded only because of his brilliant mind, he saw both sides of the spectrum. He sides with the Ghost Shirt Society and guides Paul to become the leader. Boxer correlates with Finnerty with whom they represent the proletariat. The Proletariat represents the working class. In Matthew Gannon's statement “Both Marx and Vonnegut understood that the dissatisfied population will boom and, when it becomes self-conscious, will find that it has nothing to lose but its chains,” Orwell might also add. The working class is bounded by chains can be shown in both novels. In Vonnegut's novel, the farm is the Protelariat or the working class. The farm could be classified as chain-bound as they are the only ones who see the social problems caused by the mechanisms. There is nothing they can do about it because once on the farm, they very rarely leave. Having Paul in the Ghost Shirt Society gives them the opportunity to free themselves from the shackles of the mistreatment they suffer at the hands of Mr. Jones. The "in" that the characters in Orwell's novel were Old Major being so old was able to obtain all the information necessary for the revolution to take place, or