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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersOnly George Orwell's last two novels have been much read by young adults, and these were, of course, the two that enjoyed the greatest fame and largest sales: Animal Farm and 1984. Together they gave Orwell an...
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From: A Critical Commentary: Animal Farm[(essay date 1963) In the following essay, originally published as a monograph, the critic provides a brief biography of Orwell, introduces the reader to Animal Farm, analyzes the novella’s plot structure, and provides a...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Most directly Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism, growing out of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It is cast as a beast fable, thus giving the reader some distance from the specific political events. George Orwell's...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhole-group discussion is proposed as an alternative to lecturing in teaching literature. Using George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' as an example, it was shown that the approach is effective in generating student response and...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe present study investigates the patterns of English and Azeri Turkish grammatical collocations in the original English novella "Animal Farm" and its Turkish translation. The specific objective of this study is to...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)George Orwell never legally changed his name. He was born Eric Blair, and so he remained to his family and his bank manager until his death, yet the assumption of a pseudonym for his first book did represent an important...
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From: The Sewanee Review[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Miller examines several biographies of Orwell, comparing and contrasting how they deal with details of his life and character and how they define his politics and works,...
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From: Papers on Language and Literature[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Rodden considers the possible influence of the hobo song “Big Rock Candy Mountain,” popular in the 1920s and 1930s, on “Beasts of England,” the hymn that Old Major teaches the...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5853)A sale of Modern Literature at Bonham's, Knightsbridge, on June 24 includes an eight-page letter from T. S. Eliot to Lytton Strachey, the larger part of which appears to be unpublished. Writing on December 10, 1923,...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 60, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"You could not always be quite certain if he was serious or not." --Sir Richard Rees, George Orwell "To be funny, indeed, you have got to be serious." --George Orwell, "Funny, but not Vulgar" To speak of...
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From:Literature Resource Center[In the following essay, Fitzpatrick, a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, notes that an understanding of the historical setting for Orwell's novel is imperative if the reader is to understand the work as not simply...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)George Orwell's worldwide reputation as a writer of science fiction rests upon a single novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Such is the dynamic force of this work that the title of the book has become a universal symbol for the...
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From: Modern Satire[(essay date 1962) In the following essay, Kernan argues that in Animal Farm, Orwell was projecting the terrible fears he had as a child onto a society. “His fear of power made him sensitive to the misuse of it … his...
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From: Once upon a Time: Myth, Fairy Tales and Legends in Margaret Atwood’s Writings[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Appleton discusses Atwood’s dystopian novel Oryx and Crake, which offers an apocalyptic portrait of human extinction. She notes Atwood’s claim that the events in the novel are...
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From:The Review of English Studies (Vol. 49, Issue 193) Peer-ReviewedGeorge Orwell and Leo Tolstoy were regarded as persons with totally conflicting attitudes in life where the former had a worldly humanist perception and the latter was a worldly believer. Although the two authors had...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEnglish author George Orwell (1903-1950)'s novella Animal Farm (1945) is an allegorical portrayal of the difficulty of creating classless societies because of power-hungry leaders. Likewise, Ya[section]ar Kemal...
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureBoxer Fictional character, an old, noble cart horse in George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm. His unquestioning acceptance of the commands of the other animals and his willingness to work ever harder are...
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From: Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Rodden examines how Animal Farm is being received by a generation of students who were not alive for the collapse of the Soviet Union and who have a major cartoon version of the...
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From: From Francis Bacon to William Golding: Utopias and Dystopias of Today and of Yore[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Popescu argues that Animal Farm is a dystopian novel that deals with the “deconstruction of the chimera of communism through discourse and imagery.”] In his book entitled The...
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureAnimal Farm Anti-utopian satire by Orwell, George, published in 1945. One of Orwell's finest works, it is a political fable based on the events of Russia's Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph...