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Animal Farm

By George Orwell

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Allegory - Satire - Fable


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George OrwellBritish Author & Journalist

1903-1950 Born in India

At that time India was a part of the BritishEmpire, and Blair's father, Richard, held a postas an agent in the Opium Department of theIndian Civil Service.

The Blair family was not very wealthy - Orwelllater described them ironically as "lower-upper-

middle class". They owned no property, had noextensive investments; they were like manymiddle-class English families of the time, totallydependent on the British Empire for theirlivelihood and prospects.

Noted as a novelist and critic, as well as apolitical and cultural commentator

One of the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century

Best known for two novels critical oftotalitarianism in general, and Stalinism inparticular: Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four

Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear.


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1984

The novel, published in1949, takes place in 1984and presents an imaginary

future where a totalitarianstate controls every aspectof life, even people'sthoughts. The state is

called Oceania and is ruledby a group known as theParty; its leader anddictator is Big Brother.


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Why Animals?

In explaining how he came to writeAnimalFarm, Orwell says he once saw a little boywhipping a horse and later he wrote,

It struck me that if only such animals became aware

of their strength we should have no power over them,and that men exploit animals in much the same wayas the rich exploit the [worker].


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George Orwell in India

He was born in India andspent his early yearsthere since his father helda post there. He was a lonely boy who

liked to make up storiesand talk with imaginary

companions. As an adult, he worked

for the Imperial Police inBritish occupied India.


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Childrens Book? No!

AfterAnimal Farm

was published in 1945, GeorgeOrwell discovered with horror that booksellers wereplacing his novel on childrens shelves. According tohis housekeeper, he began traveling from bookstoreto bookstore requesting that the book be shelved with

adult works. This dual identity

as childrens storyand adult satire has stayed with Orwells novel for

more than fifty years.


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Allegory Most fables have two levels of meaning. On the surface, the

fable is about animals. But on a second level, the animalsstand for types of people or ideas. The way the animalsinteract and the way the plot unfolds says something aboutthe nature of people or the value of ideas. Any type of

fiction that has multiple levels of meaning in this way iscalled an allegory.


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Satire In a satire, the writer

attacks a serious issue bypresenting it in a ridiculouslight or otherwise poking fun

at it. Orwell uses satire toexpose what he saw as themyth of Soviet socialism.Thus, the novel tells a story

that people of all ages canunderstand, but it also tellsus a second story that ofthe real-life revolution.

Soviet Coat of Arms


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Animalism = Communism Animalism

Taught my Old Major

No rich, but no poor

Better life for workers

All animals are equal Everyone owns the

farm

Communism

Invented by Karl Marx

All people are equal

Government ownseverything

People own thegovernment


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Animal Farm Revolution

= Russian Revolution Animal Farm Revolution

Was supposed to make life

better for all, but . . . Life was worse at the end.

The leaders became thesame as, or worse than theother farmers (humans) they

rebelled against.

Russian Revolution

Was supposed to fix the

problems created by theCzar, but . . .

Life was even worse afterthe revolution.

Stalin made the Czar look

like a nice guy.


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