a. How is Orwell’s Animal Farm an allegory? Be specific and provide examples from the text to support your statements. An allegory is a literary device that involves using other characters and settings to reference another topic. In many cases, writers use this to bring light to a dark topic. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegory. He tells the events of the Russian Revolution in the format of an animal fable. I know the story is referring to the Russian Revolution and Soviet Union because the book was written in 1944, shortly after the Soviet Union fell. Another reason I know Animal Farm is an allegory is because the various events that take place throughout the plot match up with the events that took place during the Russian Revolution. …show more content…
One being Napoleon. Napoleon is the only Berkshire Boar on the farm, meaning he was given special treatment. He did not like sharing his power with Snowball, so he turned puppies on the farm into attack dogs to chase off Snowball. Napoleon represents Stalin and the puppies represent Stalin’s police officers. The horse Boxer represents the Russian working class. Boxer is portrayed as very naive. He constantly says things such as “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right”. He represents the working class because he is extremely hardworking and loyal as well as he is quick to trust the wrong person simply because they are in charge. He also ignores obvious signs of corruption in society. To conclude, the entire concept of Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory. A few examples of the many rhetorical components of the book are animalism, characters such as Napoleon, and the horse Boxer. Manor farm is Russia, and Mr. Jones is the Russian Czar. c. How is the use of allegory as a rhetorical device different from simply laying out a non-fictional account, or an historical or statistical analysis of the period and the rise of the Communist