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Animal Farm (He expressed his disillusionment (with Stalinism and…
Animal Farm
He expressed his disillusionment
with Stalinism and totalitarianism in general
in the form of an animal fable
an anti-utopia much influenced by
Swift's Gulliver's Travels especially
in the comparison between men and animals
Orwell wrote Animal Farm primary as an
allegory of the Russian Revolution
Napoleon is obviously Stalin
he uses terror and force to
assert and maintain his power over
the animals, Boxer stands for the loyal
hard-working man
The dogs are a metaphor for the Terror
State which Stalin created in Russia
Farmer--> Czar Nicolas II
drunk farmer who doesn't care about animals
the book his a short narrative
set on a farm where a group of oppressed
animals capable of speech and reason
and inspired by the teachings of
old boar overcome their cruel master
and set up a revolutionary government
the pigs lead and supervise the enterprise
under Napoleon's leadership
at first animals' life is guided by 7 Commandaments
based on equality however these are gradually
altered by the pigs who become more and more
dictatorial and arrogate to themselves the
privileges previously exercised by humans
at the end all 7 commandments are
abandoned and only one remains
all animals are equal but some animals
are more equal than others
the parallels
between the plot of the book and history
of the URSS are clear
each animal symbolises a precise figure
type or representative
Animal Farm cannot be interpreted
only as a satire on the Soviet Union
Orwell had a wider aim. He wanted
to write a satire on dictatorship in general
as the fact he named the ruling pig
Napoleon clearly shows
the book shows how an initial
idealism can turn into exploitation and
how ordinary people can lose their freedom
in small incremental steps