Windmill Flashcards

1
Q

What is the windmill an allegory for?

A

Communism

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2
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What does the destruction of the windmill represent?

A

How communism can never exist as there must be a leader, and power corrupts

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3
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Don Quixote windmill link

A

Windmills have been been symbols for impossible dreams ever since Don Quixote (1605), in which he attacked a group of “giants” (which he would not have been able to defeat), but in reality they were windmills.

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