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George Orwell
George Orwell: English author who earned his living writing novels & essays. His friends recalled that he had a great sense of responsibility for the well-being of animals, especially horses. He was bitterly opposed to social injustice and political oppression. He was a socialist (based on the thought that every citizen should have equal opportunities) and very passionate about his cause. He merged his two interests politics and writing and wrote novels that taught a lesson (Animal Farm and 1984).
He wrote Animal Farm during World War II and it was published in 1945. Through Animal Farm, Orwell warned the world about the dangers of totalitarianism. He showed how power inevitably corrupts and that's why revolutions end up in failure. He tries to prove that absolute power corrupts absoluetly.
Fable
A short tale that is passed on by word of mouth that has animal characters with human qualities that teaches readers a moral and/or lesson In Animal Farm, characters are animals each with his/her own personality and human characteristics The animals think, meet, talk, act, fight, disobey & obey
Examples: The tortoise and the hare, The boy who cried wolf, The lion and the mouse
Allegory
The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures or events in narrative, dramatic or pictorial form A form of an extended metaphor
A story with two meanings:
Literal meaning it's about animals on a farm
The underlying meaning of an allegory has moral, social, religious or political significance In an allegory, characters are personifications of abstract ideas like charity, greed, or envy An allegory continues throughout the text Examples: The Chronicles of Narnia, The Matrix, XMen
Satire
A manner of writing that mixes a critical attitude with wit & humor in an effort to improve mankind and human institutions Examples: Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, Scary Movie, Weird Al songs
Ridicule Language or behavior intended to mock and humiliate Reversal - To present the opposite of the normal order (e.g., the order of events, hierarchical order)
Novella: A fictional story usually longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others