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Interpretive Logic of Animal Farm

Uploaded by Comrade Basa on Oct 15, 2008

The Modern Period of literature was an era of tumultuous change around the world. New writers were coming out with material that had previously been considered explicit. Writing had changed its focus and orientation. It was very much like a revolution in the world of literature. Books were written with a political purpose, and some achieved international notoriety. Of these books, one of the most influential was undoubtedly Animal Farm. It is difficult to decipher the book however, as it was written as a fable. Also, the international media, over the years, have passed down many different interpretations of the book. Animal Farm has little base on any actual fact apart from a few plot developments, which are loosely based on Soviet politics. Animal Farm is a good book, if it is to be interpreted and understood by the reader individually.
George Orwell released Animal Farm at end of the Second World War. It was his first real success in writing. Animal Farm wasn’t successful upon its inception. The first release of Animal Farm was written in Ukrainian to the displaced peoples after the war. The Americans who remained in Europe after the war confiscated all these copies of the book. The real political purpose of this book was to disenfranchise the current government of the Soviet Union. It was timely released when the United States and the Soviet Union were doing well in peace talks. Interestingly enough, Stalin’s name does not appear in the book. This was of course intentional, Orwell was under the belief that the world was falling at Stalin’s feet, and decided that he couldn’t directly use this book to convert them. Indirectly he intended the readers to discover the illegitimacy of Stalin on their own. Orwell wanted to show the truth to the world, from this book, people around the world would open their eyes to the realities of the Soviet Union. In generic terms however, the real point of this book was to explain that even the most wholesome ideals could be so easily corrupted by power.
It is for exactly this reason that none of the characters could be considered dynamic. The purpose of this was to show the animals as people in society with a broad spectrum of personalities. The animals were not really individual because they experienced change not individually, but as...

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Uploaded by:   Comrade Basa

Date:   10/15/2008

Category:   Literature

Length:   7 pages (1,491 words)

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