Animal Farm is an allegory, which is a story that has a deeper meaning. Each specific character and situation stands for other character and situation.
- The setting of Animal Farm is a dystopia, which is an imagined world that is far worse than our own, as opposed to a utopia, which is an ideal place or state.
- Orwell’s book as a powerful attack on ANY political, rhetorical, or military power that seeks to control human beings unjustly.
- Orwell hated them all:
from tyranny to sycophancy, to deceitful propaganda and
sheeplike acceptance of empty political formulas.
Best recension: Chris Hitchens' essay
Saralisa paulson:
What a powerful fable of how a manifesto written by the animals for the animals goes awry. Just under 100 pages, Orwell blasts us with a vision of how egalitarian values can slowly slip away, if there is no ability to read, write, or remember on the part of the collective.
A classic and a must-read for everyone who cares about equality and democracy and free thinking.
Assessment-1
What did Orwell accomplish in his novel Animal Farm?
Where did he fall short?
Why still read it?
Assessment-2
In 1946, the critic George Soules read Animal Farm with disgust, calling the book "on the whole dull...a creaking machine...clumsy."
Do you subscribe any of its conclusions?
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