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The political fable, “Animal Farm,” written by visionary George Orwell, was published on this day in history, Aug. 17, 1945.
The plot of “Animal Farm” is based on the story of the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by Joseph Stalin and is deemed an allegory, according to Britannica.com
The novella tells the story of a group of barnyard animals that overthrow and chase off their exploitative human masters — and set up an egalitarian society of their own, the same source chronicles.
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As “Animal Farm” opens, Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is intoxicated and heading to bed.
“The animals gather in the barn as Old Major, a boar, tells them that he has thought about the brutal lives that the farm animals lead under human bondage and is convinced that a rebellion must come soon,” notes Encyclopedia.com.
Author George Orwell finished writing the draft of “Animal Farm” — originally titled “A Fairy Story” — in the summer of 1944. A number of publishers originally rejected the book. It was finally published in August 1945. (ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Eventually the “power-loving leaders, the pigs, subvert the revolution and form a dictatorship whose bondage is even more oppressive and heartless than that of their former human masters,” Britannica.com outlined.
The book’s original book jacket describes the book in these words: “In this good-natured satire upon dictatorship, George Orwell makes use of the technique perfected by Swift in ‘The Tale of a Tub.’ It is the history of a revolution that went wrong — and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine,” recounted The Orwell Society.
Orwell has said that “Animal Farm” was the first book in which he tried “to fuse political and artistic purpose into one whole.”
Orwell finished writing the draft, originally subtitled “A Fairy Story,” in the summer of…
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