behind satire as a text type is not only to entertain, but also to challenge the audience to think more deeply about the issues of society in the world, and one can reference George Orwell’s novel ‘ Animal Farm’ and the satirical cartoon presented below as examples of this powerful, mind-captivating genre. Orwell’s satirical novel, ‘Animal Farm’ is a compelling example of this satirical genre. As the story takes place in Manor Farm, originally owned by Mr Jones, but soon rebranded, Animal Farm, the
Orwell specifically targets the working class animals for satire in Animal Farm because the animals represent the working class of Russia who contributed to their own oppression through their obliviousness, stupidity, and will to face reality. The working class animals brought their own oppression because they were swayed by their own emotions instead of their logical thinking. When Snowball and Napoleon argued over what the , the animals “could not make up their mind which was right; indeed, they
Arthur Blair. He was born in Motihari, Bengal, India in 1903. During his young age, his mother brought him to England and was there educated in Henley and Sussed at schools. The Orwell family was not all wealthy and in Orwell’s own personal written essays, it shows that his younger years were not so satisfying. At about five or six, though, he noticed that he had a gift for writing. Orwell went to Eton College and because literature was not an accepted subject for boys at that time, he began to develop
One of the Most Impactful Authors of the 20th Century “If liberty means anything, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” - George Orwell. George Orwell’s life began at the start of the twentieth century. World War 1 started in 1914 and lasted until 1918, a long and bloody war that killed millions. The Spanish Civil War took place from 1936 to 1939, and greatly impacted Orwell, as he fought in the war himself fighting against the nationalists. Directly after the Spanish Civil
George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, originally published in 1945. An allegorical novella and a work of political satire that is more critical of totalitarianism regimes than it is of ideologies such as communism, it has a plot which is a figurative representation of real life events of the Russian Revolution. As these events unfold, the Tsarist autocracy of the Russian Empire is overthrown and leads to a transfer of power: the rise of the Soviet Union established by the Bolsheviks. This essay outlines how