ANIMAL FARM 1945

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Genre: animal Fable

Tone: sarcastic, biting, pessimistic

Style/Language: simple, coincise, detailed, easy plot

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ANIMAL FARM 1945

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The Thirties

The spanish civil war (1936-1939)

Hitler-Stalin. Non aggression pact 23 August 1939

Outbrear of WWI. September 1939

Rise of Totalitariam regimes in Italy, Spain, Germain

Stalin's purges and trials

The GREAT DEPRESSION

Aim: Committed fiction

Writer's Task: to inform, to make the reader aware of social and political issues

Didactic Aim

Main Theme: Allegory/Satir of the Russian Revolution

G. Orwell.

Adj. Orwelliam/ Big brother