Genre: animal Fable
Tone: sarcastic, biting, pessimistic
Style/Language: simple, coincise, detailed, easy plot
Birth/Death
Studies
Experiences
Other Works
Ideas and Themes
ANIMAL FARM 1945
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The Thirties
The spanish civil war (1936-1939)
Hitler-Stalin. Non aggression pact 23 August 1939
Outbrear of WWI. September 1939
Rise of Totalitariam regimes in Italy, Spain, Germain
Stalin's purges and trials
The GREAT DEPRESSION
Aim: Committed fiction
Writer's Task: to inform, to make the reader aware of social and political issues
Didactic Aim
Main Theme: Allegory/Satir of the Russian Revolution
G. Orwell.
Adj. Orwelliam/ Big brother