Animal Farm (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eric Arthur Blair
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Allegorical beast fable
- Time of Work: The 1940’s
- Setting: A British farm
- Principal Characters: Major, Snowball, Napoleon, Squealer, Boxer, Clover, Benjamin, Mollie, Moses, Mr. Jones
- 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
The Novel
Because Animal Farm is a thoroughgoing allegory, either specifically of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath or, more generally, of the dangers of any political revolution, it is two stories at once: the surface plot story of the events leading up to and following the revolt of a group of farm animals against their human oppressor, and the underlying conceptual story of political revolution for which the surface story stands.
The surface story begins almost immediately with the beast fable convention that animals can think, talk, and feel, as the...
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