Animal Farm is an allegory for what happened in Russia between the years of about 1917 and 1943. Some of the latest editions of the book leave this fact out, likely hoping to make it a more...
Animal Farm, an English farm run by animals
Orwell came up with the setting for his novel after seeing a young boy whipping a carthorse. As he writes in his P...Third Person (Omniscient)
The narrator is an uninvolved third person (or possibly third creature) whom we know nothing about, never see, and who isn’t a...Fable
Orwell famously gave his novel Animal Farm the sub-title Fairy Tale. The subtitle seems ironic. Elsewhere we’ve noted that if Anim...Objective, Withdrawn, False Neutrality
There’s something a bit strange about the way Animal Farm is told. First, the narrator is unidentified. Sec...Simple Word Choice, Short Sentences, Matter of Fact
The style of Animal Farm is wedded to Orwell’s overall purpose in the novel. As you might hav...You’ve got a farm. You’ve got some animals on it. Sounds reasonable to us. But wait, you say, surely that’s not all. Correct. If you’ve read the book, then you may have noti...
Animal Farm may deceptively be titled a "Fairy Tale," but if so it’s a fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm variety; the end is absolutely chilling.
As we have seen, the dream of t...
Initial Situation
Submission under tyrannical human owner Jones.
This is the first situation we come across, so we&...
Anticipation Stage
Old Major identifies the animals’ general dissatisfaction with their world and roles; he declare...
Act I
The characters are introduced. They want independence and self-sufficiency. Once they rebel, they have no choice but to be independent.
- Orwell is so NOT his real name. It’s Eric Arthur Blair. (Source)
- Orwell came...
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There’s no sex in Animal Farm, though there is some implied promiscuity on the part of Napoleon – he seems to be responsible for all of the new gene...
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