Has a surfaced level meaning & deeper level meaning represented by symbols

Is a story about an imaginary revolution by animals

Was written as a satire

Involves animals

He wrote Animal Farm as a joke

by depicting him as a pig, Orwell insulted a very powerful and cruel leader and wanted to protect himself

He felt that George Orwell sounded more like an author's name

By depicting him as a pig, Orwell mocked the father of communism and didn't want offended communists to learn his real name

The Russian Revolution

The American Revolution

World War I

The War of the Worlds

Boxer because he works hard to reveal the truth

Snowball because he is a good persuasive talker

Napoleon because he believes that dictatorship is the ideal form of government

Benjamin because he focuses on the negative aspects of a failed revolution without providing solutions

"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes"

"Let us face it: [Under Mr. Jones] our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep breath in our bodies, and [we] are forced to work to the last atom of our strength... [then] we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty"

"[Mr. Jones] is the only creature that consumes without producing"

"The rest [of the eggs and milk] have gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men"