Animal farm : a fairy story
Orwell, George
Geplaatst op Zaterdag 06 januari 2001
1. The title is: Animal Farm. It points to a farm where everything is controled and ruled by animals who chased the former human owner.
2&3. The genre is a novel, which also includes a critical (and sinical) look on the communistic regime.
4. The scene of action is always the farm, or near it. It plays in earlier years, I think the years directly after the war, like 1947-50. The book dates from 1952.
5. Device and assingment:
As a device there it says: A fairy story. Assingment: No assingment.
5. The main characters are all animals. The most important animals are Snowball and Napoleon, pigs, Boxer and Clover, horses and Benjamin, the filosophic dunkey. They have good intentions at first, but later the become even worse than there former human supressor mr. Jones.
6. After a meeting from Major, the oldest pig in the farm who will die early in the story, all the animals go sleeping. The speech of Major has put them thinking. Why control humans us and treat us badly? Why do we take that any longer? The idea of ruling the farm of there own really had got into...
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