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Essay Archive - Animal Farm: Allegory of Stalinism
Animal Farm: Allegory of Stalinism
Most directly one would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism,
growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal
fable it gives the reader/viewer, some distance from the specific political
events. The use of the fable form helps one to examine the certain elements of
human nature which can produce a Stalin and enable him to seize power. Orwell,
does however, set his fable in familiar events of current history.
Old Major, a eminent pig on the Jones farm, is regarded as the wise super....
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