Throughout the story of Animal Farm, George Orwell employs literary devices such as irony, sarcasm, and metaphors to create an allegory that satirizes the Russian Revolution. What are some of the biggest examples in the story that reveal it to be a satire? Describe what Orwell does in the story to criticize the Russian Revolution. Explain how the reader can tell when the narrator is being disingenuous (verbally ironic). Be sure to discuss how certain characters represent real life people as well.

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7 December, 06:08

Throughout the story of Animal Farm, George Orwell employs literary devices such as irony, sarcasm, and metaphors to create an allegory that satirizes the Russian Revolution. What are some of the biggest examples in the story that reveal it to be a satire? Describe what Orwell does in the story to criticize the Russian Revolution. Explain how the reader can tell when the narrator is being disingenuous (verbally ironic). Be sure to discuss how certain characters represent real life people as well.

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Patricia Duncan · Answer 1

George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is a satire of the Russian Revolution recreated in the revolution carried-on by the animals of a farm.

Explanation:

Social classes are represented by farm animals, not even forest animals, but farm animals.

The working class is represented by "Boxer" the horse; soviet politicians are represented by the pigs.

In this novel, George Orwell describes how the animals of a farm exile the owner of the farm (in the Russian revolution he is the Czar), this is how the author represents the Russian Revolution, only to be ruled by even more unscrupulous masters later-on, the pigs.