“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Animal Farm by George Orwell.

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

Animal Farm by

GeorgeOrwell

Relevance Today

FABLE-CLEAR MORAL OR MESSAGE

Cleverness and Cunning

From Animal Fable to Allegory

ALLEGORY

Allegory-Multiple levels

of meaning (Surface and

deeper)

SATIRE

IRONY

DRAMATIC IRONY

NAPOLEON SYMBOLIZES (REPRESENTS) JOSEPH STALIN

FARMER JONES

SYMBOLIZES CZAR

NICHOLAS II

SNOWBALL SYMBOLIZES LEON TROTSKY

OLD MAJOR SYMBOLIZES KARL MARX

Animalism = Communism

ANIMAL FARM

REVOLUTION SYMBOLIZES

(REPRESENTS) RUSSIAN

REVOLUTION