Animal Farm as fable.

1. ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell
Dr. Kishorkumar G. Gaikawad,
Assistant Professor, Dept. of English,
Dadapatil Rajale ASC College, Adinathnagar,
Tal-Pathardi, Dist-Ahmednagar

2. INTRODUCTION
• Written by George Orwell
• Published in 1945
• A fable
• Political satire on the Russian Revolution

3. GENRE
• Fable: Fable a symbolic narrative in which animal
characters are endowed with human qualities. A
story that features animals as characters and gives
us a particular moral lesson in the end.
• Satire: Satire is a technique employed by writers to
expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of
an individual or a society, by using humor, irony,
exaggeration, or ridicule. Writer uses fictional
characters for real people, to expose and condemn
their corruption.

4. CHARACTERS
• The Animals
• Old Major
• Snowball
• Napoleon
• Squealer
• Boxer Mollie
• Clover
• Benjamin
• Bluebell, Jessie and
Pincher
• The Humans
• Mr. Jones
• Mr. Whymper
• Mr. Pilkington
• Mr. Frederick

5. FABLE
• The Background
In English Literature, Animal Farm is one of
the best-known examples of fable. Fable a
symbolic narrative in which animal
characters are endowed with human
qualities. The best-known beast fables in
Western literature are the narratives of
Aesop, an ancient Greek story teller.

6. THE BEAST FABLE
• The emphasis is placed on the plot of the
story.
• The events correspond directly to specific
historical events relating to the Stalinist
regime.
• The pigs Napoleon and Snowball have an
allegorical relationship to Stalin and
Trotsky.

7. Ending
• The commandment changed –
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME
ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
• The pigs become corrupt like the humans.
• The pigs wear human clothing.
• The other animals can not tell the difference
between the pigs and the humans.

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