200125 March 2010 Animal Farm: Book Review Animal Farm is a dystopian‚ allegorical novel written by George Orwell and published in 1945. Orwell was a novelist as well as a journalist‚ and is best known for his narrative documentaries and his novellas’‚ including “Nineteen Eighty-Four‚” and “Animal Farm.” His novella “Animal Farm” mirrors events in Russia that lead up to the Revolution and lasted during “Stalin era‚” and exhibits noteworthy symbolism between common farm animals and important communist/socialist
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Question 1 - Characterisation In Animal Farm‚ George Orwell uses the names of his characters to reflect their personal traits and what they represent in the book. Napoleon After the death of Old Major‚ Napoleon emerges as a leader corrupted with power. Napoleon never makes a contribution to the revolution and never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself‚ only to the strength of his power over it and the rest of the Animals. His namesake‚ Napoleon Bonaparte‚ also betrayed the principles
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off‚ Animal farm is an allegory because animalism is communism. Mr. Jones the farmer‚ symbolizes Csar. The story stands for the Russian revolution. All of the events correspond with things that happened before the rise of Stalin to supreme power. The characters in the novel stand for significant figures in twentieth-century Russian history. Napoleon stands for Josef Stalin the ruthless dictator who eliminated his close friend and associate Leon Trotsky. Snowball who is forced to flee "Animal Farm"
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In the novel Animal Farm‚ there are examples as you read on further of it being an allegory‚ a book that has a hidden meaning into it. In this specific book there are hints of the past and disagreements that went on during that time of the past. The animals‚ the humans and windmill the animals controlled and built are all examples of this ‘hidden meaning’. Within the book Animal Farm‚ all of the animals represent a different prehistorical human/group of humans. Napoleon‚ the individual pig who took
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carefully lest they become suspicious. However‚ some took up a crusade against this careful attitude and used writing to diffuse situations. In his novel Animal Farm‚ George Orwell uses his mastery of satire to discuss and parody people and events in the Soviet Union during the mid-twentieth century. When George Orwell set out to write Animal Farm‚ his purpose was to “fuse political and artistic purpose into one whole‚ providing a disillusion through wit‚ dramatized irony‚ and intertextuality” (Bloom
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Animal Farm is a satirical fiction novel by George Orwell that parodied the events of the Russian revolution. the novel did this by imitating events of the Russian Revolution in the form of a fable‚ and using the animals to portray aspects of the revolution. While the story is satire‚ it has a clear allegory of being representing the greed and harshness of Soviet leaders‚ as well as the repercussions this had on the citizens and their communist government. Some examples of this are how the pigs use
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below‚ with a river running through it‚ was the busy town center of Morningsong‚ where merchants and shopkeepers‚ the blacksmith‚ and the laborers lived‚ in small bungalows and thatched huts. On the outskirts of town were the large farms and open spaces‚ where food and animals were raised and and cared for‚ mostly by peasants and families that had worked the land for many years before the Zinns had inherited the kingdom‚ and brought their ideas of a different sort of life to the place. A few elders
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more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make decisions for yourselves. But sometime you might make the wrong decisions‚ comrades‚ then where should we be?”(Orwell‚59). Animal Farm is an allegorical novel‚ “Animal Farm symbolizes the Russian Revolution which took place in 1917 during World War I. The pigs represent the communists‚ and the other animals represent the Russian society”(Animal Farm). Napoleon symbolizes Joseph Stalin who is the
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Animal Farm is an allegory written by George Orwell which revolves around a group of mistreated animals who take over their farm and start a revolution against human beings. In the story there are some leaders who impact the society around them like the animals on their farm and the other neighboring farms. Napoleon and Snowball are chosen to be the leaders on Animal Farm after Mr. Jones is exiled off the farm. Napoleon and Snowball have different communication and planning styles but their similar
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George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a satire which mocks religion‚ Russia’s Communist government and ridicules the unchallenged conformity of society. Through the tale of the animals of Animal Farm‚ Orwell portrays how‚ much like people‚ the unintelligent workers on the farm are easily persuaded to support the theory of Animalism. The unlawful acts of Napoleon and the other pigs are meant to relay that pigs and humans are very much alike. However‚ the acts of the pigs symbolize other matters. Moses
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