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Animal Farm
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The Plot
A group of oppressed animals, led by Napoleon, overcome their cruel master and set up a revolutionary government.
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All the Seven Commandments are abandoned and only one remains: “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”.
The meaning
of the book
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Animal Farm is not only a satire on the Soviet Union, but a satire on dictatorship in general, as the name “Napoleon” shows.
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The animals
Besides being a symbol, each animal
possesses the traits of its species.
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BOXER
The loyal, hard-working man,
his name derives from
the Boxer Rebellion in China
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Animal Farm shows how the initial idealism of the revolution gradually decayed into inequality, hierarchy and finally dictatorship.
This decay of the revolution is always seen from the community’s point of view, never from the pigs’ one.
The Revolution
Gradually, the privileges and abuses of the old regime are restored in a systematic, tyrannical form: this is what Orwell means by totalitarianism (each step violates some revolutionary principle of the Seven Commandments).
Animal Farm does not attack the original ideals of the Revolution but the ways in which they were betrayed.
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Religion
Orwell remains conventionally socialist in portraying religion.
The raven Moses, who is Mr Jones’s favourite pet, derives its name from the Hebrew word “lawgiver”. When the revolution turns conservative and nationalistic, Napoleon brings the raven back, as Stalin brought back the Russian Orthodox Church.