Summary Of Animal Farm By George Orwell

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In the unsettled-day times of India, Eric Blair was born in 1903. Being born in India, however, he did not get his education, nor did he enter the workforce there. He achieved his academic responsibilities in England, “and then he joined the Imperial Police in Burma.” While stepping down from this official career in 1928, he began to write. When he would write, he wrote about the ill-disposed times of his departure from the office of law. The uniqueness of his work was the fact that he wrote off of how he felt towards his “difficult situations”. Not only did he write about these hardships, but he used his thoughts in a deep, understanding matter. In result of becoming so successful, he changed his name to George Orwell, and has been impactful …show more content…

This was close to a town called Willingdon, and it was on a farm. Even though we have heard of this town, it was not mentioned often (“Animal Farm” 9). Expressing the time of the setting, Orwell made it clear that it was not made to take place in a certain part of history. While he put the farm in British culture, but he did not state that part of the story to be relevant knowledge (“Animal Farm” 9). The use of Orwell’s beliefs, when it comes to his political views, were greatly expressed throughout this novel (“Animal Farm” 8). Orwell uses these animals in this novel to represent the inequality among the animals. He represents this to show the ones who bend the concept of “human rights” (“Animal Farm” 8). The animals are used as examples of people during the Soviet Union period of World War II. In doing this, they overthrow their leader to make a life that they would want to live and not have to live by any rules, but their own equality (“Animal Farm” Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature). The farm had been taught that “all animals are equal” by their former leader, Old Major, but when Napoleon took control, under his own power, the farm came to the realization that not all animals are treated the same, and some are treated better than others (Woodhouse). In Animal Farm, considering that the pigs were proclaimed to be the smartest animals on the farm, everything seemed to fall into place when it came time to rebel against their owners (Robb). The division of the people among these animals began to take place when the pigs are uncontrollably forced to choose sides. This happens when the animals decide to stand up against their inequality among the society (“Animal Farm” 8). A critic, T.S. Eliot seemed to love the way Orwell came about Animal Farm, however, he felt as if the political controversy Orwell had displayed with the Soviet Union seemed to be irrelevant and unnecessary for the

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