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Two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball , compete to be in control. Napoleon trains some dogs and uses them to terrify the other animals into following him. The dogs chase Snowball away for good. Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule. But more generally, Animal Farm stands for any human society, be it capitalist, socialist, fascist, or communist. It possesses the internal structure of a nation, with a government (the pigs), a police force or army (the dogs), a working class (the other animals), and state holidays and rituals. Its location amid a number of hostile neighboring farms supports its symbolism as a political entity with diplomatic concerns. The Barn The piglets– Hinted to be the children of Napoleon and are the first generation of animals subjugated to his idea of animal inequality.
Rodden, John (1999). Understanding Animal Farm: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30201-5 . Retrieved 9 June 2012. Animal Farm is a beast fable, [1] in the form of a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed and, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before.Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); [11] it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels, [12] and number 46 on the BBC's The Big Read poll. [13] It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 [14] and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection. [15] Plot summary [ edit ]
The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary... Things are kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervenes but because of a general tacit agreement that "it wouldn't do" to mention that particular fact. One man Animal Farm Show On the Way to Darwen". Lancashire Telegraph. 25 January 2013. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014.Though the birds don’t understand Snowball’s long-winded explanation of why wings count as legs, they accept it nonetheless, trusting in their leader. It would be unfair, however, to fault the common animals for their failure to realize that the pigs mean to oppress them. Their fervor in singing “Beasts of England” and willingness to follow the pigs’ instructions demonstrate their virtuous desire to make life better for one another. The common animals cannot be blamed for their lesser intelligence. The pigs, however, mix their intelligence with ruthless guile and take advantage of the other animals’ apathy. Their machinations are reprehensible. The revolt of the animals against Farmer Jones is Orwell's analogy with the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The Battle of the Cowshed has been said to represent the allied invasion of Soviet Russia in 1918, [26] and the defeat of the White Russians in the Russian Civil War. [25] The pigs' rise to preeminence mirrors the rise of a Stalinist bureaucracy in the USSR, just as Napoleon's emergence as the farm's sole leader reflects Stalin's emergence. [27] The pigs' appropriation of milk and apples for their own use, "the turning point of the story" as Orwell termed it in a letter to Dwight Macdonald, [72] stands as an analogy for the crushing of the left-wing 1921 Kronstadt revolt against the Bolsheviks, [72] and the difficult efforts of the animals to build the windmill suggest the various Five Year Plans. The puppies controlled by Napoleon parallel the nurture of the secret police in the Stalinist structure, and the pigs' treatment of the other animals on the farm recalls the internal terror faced by the populace in the 1930s. [74] In chapter seven, when the animals confess their non-existent crimes and are killed, Orwell directly alludes to the purges, confessions and show trials of the late 1930s. These contributed to Orwell's conviction that the Bolshevik revolution had been corrupted and the Soviet system become rotten. [75] These commandments are also distilled into the maxim "Four legs good, two legs bad!" which is primarily used by the sheep on the farm, often to disrupt discussions and disagreements between animals on the nature of Animalism. Similarly, the music in the novel, starting with "Beasts of England" and the later anthems, parallels " The Internationale" and its adoption and repudiation by the Soviet authorities as the anthem of the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s. [81]
Although the first edition allowed space for the preface, it was not included, [49] and as of June 2009, most editions of the book have not included it. [58] A wise pig, Old Major , inspires the animals to dream of a better future . One night, the animals angrily take control of the farm and chase Mr Jones away.
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Napoleon– "A large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way". [17] An allegory of Joseph Stalin, [16] Napoleon is the leader of Animal Farm. This flag is significant and symbolic in a number of ways. The flag represents the Animal Farm: a land ruled by animals for animals. The flag is made of "an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white" ( Chapter 3). The composition of the flag is symbolic as well. The narrator describes the flag in detail in chapter three:
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