Categorie: Tutti - awareness - satire - allegory - revolution

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ANIMAL FARM 1945

An allegorical fable set against the backdrop of significant historical events, encapsulates the rise and consequences of totalitarian regimes. It draws heavily on the context of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent establishment of a totalitarian state.

ANIMAL FARM 1945

Genre: animal Fable

Tone: sarcastic, biting, pessimistic

Style/Language: simple, coincise, detailed, easy plot

Birth/Death

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ANIMAL FARM 1945

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The Thirties
The spanish civil war (1936-1939)
Hitler-Stalin. Non aggression pact 23 August 1939

Outbrear of WWI. September 1939

Rise of Totalitariam regimes in Italy, Spain, Germain
Stalin's purges and trials
The GREAT DEPRESSION

Aim: Committed fiction

Writer's Task: to inform, to make the reader aware of social and political issues
Didactic Aim

Main Theme: Allegory/Satir of the Russian Revolution

G. Orwell.

Adj. Orwelliam/ Big brother