Facts about Animal Farm

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   Orwell subtitled Animal Farm 'A Fairy Story,' emphasizing its fable-like nature and distancing it from straightforward political polemic.

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   Boxer the horse, one of Animal Farm's most sympathetic characters, represents the loyal and exploited working class under totalitarian regimes.

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   Published in 1945, Animal Farm uses an allegorical fable structure featuring talking farm animals to critique totalitarianism and Stalinist communism.

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   Napoleon, the pig dictator in Animal Farm, is widely understood to represent Joseph Stalin, while his rival Snowball represents Leon Trotsky.

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   The farm in Animal Farm is based on the Soviet Union under Stalin, with each animal character representing a specific historical figure or group from the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.

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   George Orwell completed Animal Farm in 1944, but British publishers rejected it during World War II because the Soviet Union was an Allied nation.

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