"Orwell's Animal Farm is more than a fairy story. ... George Orwell's powerful allegory, Animal Farm, highlights the inequitable conditions that are found in corrupt totalitarian regimes such as in 20th Century Russia. ... Although Orwell's originally titled novel, "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", combined with the use of animals as characters in the novel, may appeal to children, the content of Animal Farm goes beyond any magical or make-believe story. Orwell paints a vivid picture of a violent political revolution of farm animals against the farmer who owns all, works the animal ...

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George Orwell employs a variety of allegorical devices in his novel 'Animal Farm' including personification, naive narrative and irony to produce an allegory that voices his concerns over the outcome of the Russian revolution, and more broadly the dangers of unchecked power. ... Orwell uses personification as an efficient way to express the nature of the targets of his critique in the time Animal Farm was written. ... Orwell has chosen as characters animals that exhibit similar traits to the people or organisations they are meant to represent. ... The seven commandments in Animal Fa...

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Using a variety of allegorical devices in his satire, Animal Farm, Orwell creates an insightful allegory that explores the consequences of communism through the Russian Revolution. ... In this case, by using such a text type to embody his views on the Russian Revolution, George Orwell satirizes and represents individuals and events in history in his dystopian novel Animal Farm. ... His speech was about his dream of an animal paradise where the farm animals are free from the tyrannical rule of Farmer Jones, who has no regard for the well-being of his livestock. ... In Animal Farm a key chara...

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In Animal farm Orwell uses his symbolic farm to represent the communist system. ... The barn at Manor Farm is where all on the democracy issue among the animals come up. ... Napoleon, based on Joseph Stalin, is the pig who becomes the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ... He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. ... Snowball, based on Leon Trotsky, is the pig who challenges Napoleon to run Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ...

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