George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a politically written novel. The novel exposes the ideas and events which led to democratic government being formed in Russia. In another way Orwell has informed us the readers of what a nation goes through when it has a tyrannical government.
George Orwell's novel Animal Farm is a classic novel and an allegory of the Russian Revolution. In 1943-44, the time this novel was written, Orwell had a tough time getting it published. As World War II was going on, the Russian army was in alliance with others fighting the Nazi. When the novel finally appeared from press, Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is also included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.
After seeing a young boy whipping a carthorse, Orwell had the idea to make his story about political tyranny into a novel. As he puts it in his Preface, “It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.” The fable form allowed Orwell to depict the Soviet Union in simpler terms, to explain it clearly to common readers and to endow it with his own unique perspective. In short, the Soviet Union became Animal Farm. "http://www.writework.com/essay/comparing-george-orwell-s-animal-farm-bolshevik-revolution"
George Orwell's novel Animal Farm is a classic novel and an allegory of the Russian Revolution. In 1943-44, the time this novel was written, Orwell had a tough time getting it published. As World War II was going on, the Russian army was in alliance with others fighting the Nazi. When the novel finally appeared from press, Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is also included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.
After seeing a young boy whipping a carthorse, Orwell had the idea to make his story about political tyranny into a novel. As he puts it in his Preface, “It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.” The fable form allowed Orwell to depict the Soviet Union in simpler terms, to explain it clearly to common readers and to endow it with his own unique perspective. In short, the Soviet Union became Animal Farm. "http://www.writework.com/essay/comparing-george-orwell-s-animal-farm-bolshevik-revolution"