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Animal Farm and the Trotsky Vs.Stalin Power Struggle

Animal Farm was written by George Orwell in 1946 and falls under three different categories of literature: a children’s story, a fable, and a political satire. It can be considered a children’s story because it was written in the style of a child’s book and involves funny farm animals. The story is also very simple, much like a fairy tale. It can be considered a fable because the characters are human-like animals, which are used to show the follies and failings of human beings. In other words, it can be considered a fable because it teaches a lesson, as all fables do. However, the most important meaning of the book is as a political satire. Its main objective was to be an allegory of Russian history from 1917-1943. An allegory is a work in which the characters and events are used to represent other things and to symbolically express a deeper meaning, which is usually spiritual, moral, or political. This book expresses a deeper, political meaning. Although, the book offers much in...

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