Categorias: Todos - oppression - exploitation - symbolism - satire

por Genoveffa Vannucci 8 anos atrás

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animal farm

In a satirical narrative set on a farm, animals overthrow their oppressive human master and establish a revolutionary government. The story symbolizes the Russian Revolution and subsequent rise of totalitarianism.

animal farm

at the end all the seven Commandments are abbandoned and only one remains: "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"

at first the animals' lives are guided by Seven Commandments based on equality but there are gradually altered by the pigs who become dictatorial

the book is a short narrative set on a farm where a group of oppressed animals, capable of speech and reason, overcome their cruel master and set up a revolutionary government

animal farm

Ramo principale

Sottoargomento

the animals

Napoleon is obviously Stalin
Snowball represents Trotsky
farmer Jones is Czar Nicolas II
old majon stands for a mixture of Marx and lenin
each animal symbolises a precise figure or representative type

plot

the historical background of the book

the book shows how an initial idealism can turn into exploitation and how ordinary people can lose their freedom in small incremental steps
the tone of the book blends humor and sarcasm with horrifying scenes
Orwell's reaction to these events caused him to write Animal Farm
in 1939 Stalin signed a pact with Hitler which enabled the Germans to take over Poland and Czechoslovakia
in the late 1930s news reached the West of Stalin's 'purge trials'