Animal Farm | Animal Farm

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Author: George Orwell
First Published: 1945
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Satire
Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Allegory, Fantasy, Animal tale
Subjects: Dictators, Language or languages, Power, personal or social, Communism or communists, Politics, Twentieth century, Revolutions, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Pigs, Corruption, Totalitarianism, Horses, Utopias, Animals
Locales: England

Manor Farm. English farm at which the entire novel is set. When the novel opens, it is called Manor Farm and is run by a farmer named Jones. These names indicate that this farm stands for any farm, or any place, and that the entire novel should be read as an allegory. However, since Orwell wrote in the introduction to the Ukrainian edition that he wanted to expose the Soviet myth, Animal Farm also stands for the Soviet Union in particular. When the animals take over the farm, they rename it Animal Farm; when the pigs revert to the name Manor Farm in the...

Animal Farm | Animal Farm

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