This document provides information about allegory and utopia. It defines allegory as a story with a hidden, often moral or political meaning. It traces the word's origins and provides literary examples like Pilgrim's Progress and how Animal Farm uses allegory. Utopia is defined as an imagined perfect place and its origins are traced back to Sir Thomas More's book Utopia. The document gives brief examples of utopian literature and concepts like dystopia. It also includes a picture of More's book.

1. Allegory & Utopia
Khassidy Nguyen, Alannah Mcdermott
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2. al·le·go·ry (noun)
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A story, poem, or picture that can be
interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning,
especially a moral or political one
Synonyms: parable, analogy, symbol,
emblem

3. Etymology (Where the Word
Came From)
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Old French allegorie (12th cen.),
Latin allegoria, from allos
meaning “another, different”
Comes from Greek word
allegoria meaning “figurative
language, description of one
thing under the image of
another” or “a speaking about
something else”

4. Examples of Allegory in Books
& Movies
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One of the most famous allegories: John Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress, a tale of Christian salvation
(1678)
Modern allegories include: films- The Seventh Seal
(1957) and Avatar (2009) and the book Lord of the
Flies (1954)

5. Examples of Allegory in
Animal Farm
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Old Major’s Dream = Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto
Battle of the Cowshed = Russian Civil War (ended in 1922) after
the Revolution in 1917
Boxer (a horse) = proletariot (working class)
Napoleon (pig) = Joseph Stalin, his dogs = the secret police
Animalism = communism

6. More Examples of Allegory in
Animal Farm
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Mr. Jones, who runs the Manor Farm = Tsar Nicolas II (18681918, the last Russian emperor)
Old Major, a “purebred of pigs” who inspires the rebellion=
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), leader of the Bolshevik Party that
seized control of the 1917 Revolution
Snowball (pig), who challenges Napoleon for control of Animal
Farm after the Rebellion = Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), a Marxist
thinker who seized control of 1917 Revolution
Manor Farm = Russia; Battle of the Windmill = U.S.S.R.’s
involvement in World War II; Frederick, who owns the
neighboring farm = Hitler

7. U·to·pi·a (noun)
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yooˈtōpēə/
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noun: Utopia; plural noun:
Utopias; noun: utopia; plural
noun: utopias
1. an imagined place or state
of things in which everything is
perfect. The word was first
used in the book Utopia (1516)
by Sir Thomas More.

8. Origins of Utopia
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The origin of the word Utopia came
from Sir Thomas Moore and his book
called Utopia, where it described a
perfect island society in where
everything was desirable.
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Although this rings true, the first
recorded utopian form of literature
would be Plato’s Republic.

9. Facts
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explains how a society should relate
to nature
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The opposite of Utopia is dystopia
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many cultures believe that at one
time, everything was simple and
everyone had a form of their own
utopia, but now the world is much to
complicated.

10. Examples in Literature
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end --> A Childhood’s End
Arthur C. Clarke
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Hominids --> Robert J. Sawyer
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The Hunger Games Trilogy -->
Suzanne Collins
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V for Vendetta --> Alan Moore

11. Pictures