Letteratura inglese - homage to the Catalonia - Appunti

George Orwell,pseudonym of Erik Arthur

blair,was born in 1903,from a family of

schottish origins. Animal farm is the most

famous satirical allegory of soviet

totalitarianism.,in general and the

Stalinism particulary.THE animal

farm,published in England in 1945,

Orwell encountered several problems in

publishing the work,for his irreverent

content against the Soviet Union,which at

the time,in full World War 2°,was an ally of

the kingdom united against Nazi Germany.

Orwell was a democratic socialist.

The short novel is an allegory in which

animals play the roles of the Bolshevik

revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the

human owners of the farm,setting it up as a

commune in which,a first ,all animals are

equal;howerer,class and status disparities

soon emerge between the different animal

species(the pigs being the “greater

species”)

The event and characters in Animal farm

satirise stalinism(Animalism),authoritarian