This short video discusses the use of songs and chants in Animal Farm to create a mob mentality, and the significance of religion and rituals:
In this article published by the British Library, Mercedes Aguirre explores how George Orwell rewrote the beast fable for the 20th century in Animal Farm.
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is one of the best-known examples of animal fable, a symbolic narrative in which animal characters are endowed with human qualities. The best-known beast fables in Western literature are the narratives attributed to Aesop, an ancient Greek story teller who is thought to have lived circa 620–564 BCE. Aesop’s fables were characterised by their brevity and clarity, and by the inclusion of an explicit moral at the end which summarised the lesson illustrated by the story. Showing human values through animal characters allowed readers to examine their behaviour from a distanced perspective...continue reading...
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