Story:
Animal Farm is a beast fable, in the form of a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.
According to Orwell, Animal Farm reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the May Days conflicts between the POUM and Stalinist forces during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".
Summary:
Gathers the animals of the Manor Farm for a meeting in the big barn. He tells them of a dream he has had in which all animals live together with no human beings to oppress or control them, The central conflict of Animal Farm arises when the animals’ desire for freedom and equality is corrupted by the consolidation of political power amongst the pigs.
Main Characters:
Napoleon
Snowball
Boxer
Squealer
Old Major
Mr. Pilkington
Benjamin
Book rating:
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Quizzes:
George Orwell: Animal Farm quiz contains more than 200 questions, divided by each chapter as follows:
Chapter 01: Old Majors Speech
Chapter 02: Characterization of Moses the tame raven
Chapter 03: Mind map
Chapter 04: The Battle of the Cowshed
Chapter 05: Snowball writes in his diary
Chapter 06: New rules and new problems on Animal farm
Chapter 07: Rebuilding of the windmill and the hard winter
Chapter 08: The Poem – What’s my thought about it?
Chapter 09: A dictionary of new words
Chapter 10: The pigs – animals or humans?
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