Quote of the week:

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
- William Shakespeare.
Showing posts with label George Orwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Orwell. Show all posts

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Animal Farm´s Symbolism.


 

This is a follow up from the previous post and a summarizing approach to the symbolism lying beneath the characters in this allegorical masterpiece.

 

Animal Farm- An allegorical way to the truth.



"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."



In 1945, George Orwell managed to successfully bring to life one of the direst and most shattering indictments of Russian communism. Animal Farm is a powerful and insightful novel, a worthy introduction to his upcoming dystopian masterpiece (1984) that would entail from the message that Orwell was trying to spread at first, with this book; namely: Russia was not the prosperous land of freedom and opportunity as the rest of the world thought it was at the time.