Animal Farm | Themes
Conceived and written as satire. Animal Farm is generally acknowledged as possessing much of Orwell's humanistic aspirations and political conviction. The novel develops as an allegorical fable contrasting man and beast in a literary metaphor of the human condition. Clearly analogous to the political events in Russia dating roughly from 1917 to the Second World War, Animal Farm is primarily an attack on Stalinism yet beyond that serves as a biting commentary on the anatomy of revolution.
Modeled on a relatively simple premise, the novel begins as the animals of Manor Farm unite...
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