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How Does George Orwell Use Animals In Animal Farm

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A young author decides to sit down and write a novel about his disapproval of a certain country's society. His story gets published and within a brief period his book instantly becomes famous and claimed as one of the greatest novels of the century. This is not uncommon; many of the greatest and most popular literary works of all time are based on an author’s personal life, opinion, or a historical time. Successful authors commonly use an object, place, or person to symbolize something more serious or political and many of their works expose problems within a society or address a certain conflict. George Orwell’s classic novel, Animal Farm, is a perfect example. Orwell uses animals on a farm to symbolize the different classes of people and their …show more content…

He was shot twice and almost arrested for being accused as a
“Trotskyites”. As soon as he was well enough to travel, he moved back to England.
Two years after returning home, World War II started. Orwell found a job writing programs and propaganda to gain support from Indian and Asian countries. In 1943, he started writing an anti-Stalinist satire novel called Animal Farm, featuring two pigs as its main protagonists. However, not a single publisher wanted to hear, or read, a story criticizing the Soviet
Union. At that time, the Soviet Union had started fighting against the Nazis and were starting to make them look beatable. No one wanted to read a novel degrading their newest hope of ending the war. Finally, on August 17, 1945, almost three weeks before World War II ended, the novel was published. The novel mocks, humiliates, and exposes the Soviet Union for using socialism to gain personal power. He completed his main objective, he allowed western Europe to see what the
Soviet regime was truly like, and made a point they were not as great as everyone believed
(“Biography of George Orwell,” 2003).

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