Annotated Bibliography On Animal Farm
Animal Farm
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This article is about the novel by George Orwell. For other uses, see Animal Farm (disambiguation).
Animal Farm First edition cover
Author(s) George Orwell
Original title Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Classics, satire, educational animation
Publisher Secker and Warburg (London)
Publication date August 17, 1945
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 112 pp (UK paperback edition)
ISBN
ISBN 0-452-28424-4 (present)ISBN 978-0-452-28424-1
OCLCNumber
53163540
Dewey Decimal
823/.912 20
LC Classification
PR6029.R8 A63 2003b
Preceded by The Lion And The Unicorn
Followed by Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Writing in the American New Republic magazine, George Soule expressed his disappointment in the book, writing that it "puzzled and saddened me. It seemed on the whole dull. The allegory turned out to be a creaking machine for saying in a clumsy way things that have been said better directly." Soule argued that the animals were not consistent enough with their real world inspirations, and said, "It seems to me that the failure of this book (commercially it is already assured of tremendous success) arises from the fact that the satire deals not with something the author has experienced, but rather with stereotyped ideas about a country which he probably does not know very …show more content…
It seems to me that a reviewer should have the courage to identify Napoleon with Stalin, and Snowball with Trotsky, and express an opinion favourable or unfavourable to the author, upon a political ground. In a hundred years time perhaps, Animal Farm may be simply a fairy story, today it is a political satire with a good deal of point." Animal Farm has been subject to much comment in the decades since these early remarks.[41]
Analysis
Animalism
"Seven Commandments" redirects here. For the Noahide code, see Seven Laws of Noah.
The pigs Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer adapt Old Major 's ideas into 'a complete system of thought ', which they formally name Animalism. Soon after, Napoleon and Squealer indulge in the vices of humans (drinking alcohol, sleeping in beds, trading). Squealer is employed to alter the Seven Commandments to account for this humanisation, an allusion to the Soviet government 's revising of history in order to exercise control of the people 's beliefs about themselves and their society.[42]
Squealer sprawls at the foot of the end wall of the big barn where the Seven Commandments were written (ch.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the novel by George Orwell. For other uses, see Animal Farm (disambiguation).
Animal Farm First edition cover
Author(s) George Orwell
Original title Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Classics, satire, educational animation
Publisher Secker and Warburg (London)
Publication date August 17, 1945
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 112 pp (UK paperback edition)
ISBN
ISBN 0-452-28424-4 (present)ISBN 978-0-452-28424-1
OCLCNumber
53163540
Dewey Decimal
823/.912 20
LC Classification
PR6029.R8 A63 2003b
Preceded by The Lion And The Unicorn
Followed by Nineteen Eighty-Four
Animal Farm is …show more content…
Writing in the American New Republic magazine, George Soule expressed his disappointment in the book, writing that it "puzzled and saddened me. It seemed on the whole dull. The allegory turned out to be a creaking machine for saying in a clumsy way things that have been said better directly." Soule argued that the animals were not consistent enough with their real world inspirations, and said, "It seems to me that the failure of this book (commercially it is already assured of tremendous success) arises from the fact that the satire deals not with something the author has experienced, but rather with stereotyped ideas about a country which he probably does not know very …show more content…
It seems to me that a reviewer should have the courage to identify Napoleon with Stalin, and Snowball with Trotsky, and express an opinion favourable or unfavourable to the author, upon a political ground. In a hundred years time perhaps, Animal Farm may be simply a fairy story, today it is a political satire with a good deal of point." Animal Farm has been subject to much comment in the decades since these early remarks.[41]
Analysis
Animalism
"Seven Commandments" redirects here. For the Noahide code, see Seven Laws of Noah.
The pigs Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer adapt Old Major 's ideas into 'a complete system of thought ', which they formally name Animalism. Soon after, Napoleon and Squealer indulge in the vices of humans (drinking alcohol, sleeping in beds, trading). Squealer is employed to alter the Seven Commandments to account for this humanisation, an allusion to the Soviet government 's revising of history in order to exercise control of the people 's beliefs about themselves and their society.[42]
Squealer sprawls at the foot of the end wall of the big barn where the Seven Commandments were written (ch.