Animal Farm

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   Some critics point out ways in which Animal Farm deviates from an allegorical representation of totalitarianism under Stalin.  Naming the pig "Napoleon," for example, suggest a wider criticism  of totalitarian rule because the name links to a specific historical figure, and Old Major could be Lenin, could be Marx--and does it matter when analyzing the Stalinist regime if we trace its malice and failure to one theorist or the other? That it is a satire of totalitarian rule there is no doubt however:  it is the closeness to Stalinism itself that causes some bickering.

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   Posted by sagetrieb on Wednesday October 3, 2007 at 3:57 PM
   
   

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