George Orwell's Satirical Approach

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George Orwell once said the Animal Farm, an anti-Soviet satire, was "the first...in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose, and artistic purpose into one whole." Animal Farm has masked as a manual's guide for many governments around the world. Orwell wrote Animal Farm as an attempt to make people notice the cruelty of Stalin's way of governing, Russia's new government and his opinions of revolutions.

The goal of Animal Farm was to get people to open their eyes to Stalin's way of governing Russia. But some people's eyes remained closed even after the book was published. George Soule did not open his mind to Animal Farm. He once said, "...the failure of this book...arises from the fact that the satire deals not with something the author has experienced, but rather with stereotyped ideas about a country."

Orwell's use of "satire in the form of a 'fairy story'...to get his point across shows his indignation for hard-core ideological doctrines whose purposes are to lead to the eventful destruction of a society" (Unger).

The characters in Animal Farm are compared to the individuals and groups engaged in the Russian Revolution.

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"The book's major concern is not with these incidents but with the essential horror of the human condition" (Greenblatt 189). Orwell's attempt to express his opinion creatively on the Russian Revolution, Joseph Stalin, and revolutions with a satirical approach was successful because Orwell has made governments and people everywhere aware of what revolutions and absolute power can create and result in.

In Animal Farm, George Orwell expresses his opinion on revolution through Animalism. Some critics have compared Animalism to Marxism. In the beginning of Animal Farm, Old Major calls for a meeting in the barn and tells all the animals about a dream he had the night before. In his speech he explains that the animals should not have to live as they do and Old Major proposes that all the animals unite and rebel against their cruel owner or "master", Mr. Jones. Old Major called that once the farm was theirs and every animal was equal, Animalism would come into effect. Karl Marx called for a revolution in The Communist Manifesto by the proletariate to change the social structure of the state and its distribution of wealth (Unger). Old Major's ideas were pretty similar to Marx's; they both believed that everyone or every animal is equal.

The revolution in Animal Farm did not keep nationalism from disappearing, a point Orwell makes clear early on in the novel. "Orwel

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