The Use Of Allegory In George Orwell's Animal Farm

A. An allegory is an extended metaphor. Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is an allegory because it is a metaphor of communism. In the beginning of the story, the animals took over the farm. They were trying to better their lives. There was not supposed to be one animal in charge over all of the animals. All animals were to be considered equal. “They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments. These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.” One of the commandments was that “All animals are equal.”

Slowly the pigs started taking over little

He let people know how bad communism is. In the story when Napoleon became the one in charge, all of the other animals except the pigs and dogs, had no say in anything. Which is how communism is, people do not get a say in how things are. The animals began working for Napoleon, no themselves.

C. The use of allegory as a rhetorical device is different than a non-fictional account or an historical or statistical analysis of the period and the ride of the communist party because, metaphors tend to make people think about the subject a little more. When people read metaphors, they have to think about it longer in order to truly understand the meaning of it. They put more time into it instead of just reading the story and moving on. Reading a metaphor also gives the reader a new perspective of the subject. It may allow the reader to think about the subject in a different way.

Reading this allegory made the communism subject a little more interesting to me. If I would have just read the history of the Soviet Union, I would have understood how bad communism is, but I wouldn’t have put as much thought into. Reading the allegory had made me put more thought into