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- Sprache: Englisch
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Animal Farm by George Orwell, a tale about an animal revolution on a farm and its consequences. While the premise may appear simple at first, a closer reading of the text reveals that Orwell’s book is actually a stinging satire of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the government which then came to power. Due to the political context at the time the book was written, Orwell had great difficulty finding a publisher willing to potentially upset the peace between the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. The book was eventually published in August 1945 and was universally acclaimed, even featuring in
The Times’ List of the 100 Best Novels. Orwell was an English writer born in British India. He was an outspoken critic of social injustice and totalitarianism, and is considered one of the finest British writers of all time.
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George Orwell
English writer
Born in Motihari (British India) in 1903.Died in London in 1950.Notable works:Homage to Catalonia (1938), non-fiction Animal Farm (1945), novel1984 (1949), novelGeorge Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) was an English writer born in Motihari (British India) in 1903. After studying in England, he returned to India and joined the Imperial Police in Burma. He resigned in 1928 and decided to become a writer. He then spent several years drifting from Paris to London, where he lived alongside some of the poorest members of society (Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933). After this, he had several different jobs (bookseller, teacher, columnist) before signing up for the Spanish Civil War against fascism (Homage to Catalonia, 1938).
During the Second World War, he dedicated himself to journalism and wrote some of his most famous novels, including Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949). Orwell died from tuberculosis in London in 1950.
Animal Farm
A critique of political power
Genre: allegorical novelReference edition: Orwell, G. (1993) Animal Farm. London: Everyman. 1st edition: 1945Themes: utopia, communism, totalitarianism, equality, powerAnimal Farm, published in 1945, is an allegorical novel which tells the story of a group of farm animals who overthrow their masters and ban all humans from their new land.
The text is actually a criticism of Stalinism and, more broadly, of totalitarianism, through the characters of the pigs who flout the egalitarian principles put in place during the revolt against the humans, and gradually install a system of oppression and exploitation which the other animals suffer from.
The novel is now extremely famous and is regarded as one of the classics of English literature.
Summary
Revolution
Once Mr Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, has gone to bed, the farm animals gather in the barn to listen to old Major, the pigs’ elder, as it is the pigs who claim to be the most intelligent of all the animals. He invites his brethren to revolt against the only animal who consumes without producing and exploits all the others: man. The pig-prophet has even made a doctrine out of his ideas: Animalism. He had a dream which reminded him of an old song which heralds the golden age of animals: Beasts of England. He begins to sing it, and all the other animals join in enthusiastically, until Mr Jones, woken up by the din, fires a gunshot to scare off a potential fox. After old Major dies , Napoleon, Snowball and Squealer, three pigs who have taught themselves to read, set about teaching the other animals the alphabet and Animalism in order to lay the groundwork for the revolution.
