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Facts about Animal Farm: Political Allegory
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Squealer in Animal Farm functions as an allegory for propaganda and the Soviet state media, manipulating the other animals with statistics and false narratives.
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Old Major, the prize-winning boar whose speech inspires the animal rebellion, serves as an allegory for Karl Marx and his revolutionary ideas.
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Published in 1945, Orwell's Animal Farm was rejected by several publishers, including Victor Gollancz, who feared offending the Soviet Union, a wartime ally.
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The character Napoleon in Animal Farm is widely recognized as an allegory for Joseph Stalin, while Snowball represents Leon Trotsky.
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George Orwell's Animal Farm uses farm animals to allegorize the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalinism in the Soviet Union.