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Originally posted by groom
ive got to write an essay about thow the book ANIMAL FARM by GEORGE ORWELL is an allegory(wtf) of the russian revelution

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Man unlucky thats shit, i can remember having to do that, hated it

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Originally posted by novaless18
i start work 8am tomoz not looking forwqard to it. over the holidays i dont usually get up till at least 3pm!
i dont fancy working outside on these cold mornings again

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Originally posted by groom
ive got to write an essay about thow the book ANIMAL FARM by GEORGE ORWELL is an allegory(wtf) of the russian revelution

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Man unlucky thats shit, i can remember having to do that, hated it

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I did that essay too, think everyone did. Its a piece of piss to do though, there are about a million essays about allegory on the net.

Animal Farm is strongly allegorical, but it presents a very nice balance between levels of meaning. On the first level, the story about the animals is very moving. You can be upset when Boxer is taken away by the horse slaughterer without being too aware of what he stands for. But at the same time, each of the animals does serve as a symbol. The story's second level involves the careful critique Orwell constructed to comment on Soviet Russia.

Yet there is no reason that allegory must be limited to two levels. It is possible to argue that Animal Farm also has a third and more general level of meaning. For instance, the pigs need not only represent specific tyrannical soviet leaders. They could also be symbols for tyranny more broadly: their qualities are therefore not simply the historical characteristics of a set of actual men but are the qualities of all leaders who rely on repression and manipulation.

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