Animal Farm (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Eric Arthur Blair
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: England
- 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
Characters Discussed
Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm. After getting drunk on Midsummer’s Eve, Mr. Jones fails to return in time to feed his animals. They have been thinking about rebellion anyway, and they take this opportunity to chase away Mr. Jones, Mrs. Jones, and the human farmworkers. In his ineptness, Mr. Jones is analogous to the czar of Russia, who was unable to hold Russia together during the stress of World War I.
Old Major, a boar previously exhibited as Willingdon Beauty. He is the prize boar whose dream inspires the Animalist Revolution on Manor Farm....
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