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Animal Farm Research Paper

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Meta-narratives in post-modern thought, are narratives which have historical meaning, experience or backing. As stated above, Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) presented a meta-narrative of the Russian Revolution and rise of Joseph Stalin. Marxist theorist Jean-François Lyotard (1984) describes meta-narratives as knowledge in the form of storytelling. The concept of meta-narrative is a tale in which one talks, not just about “one damn thing after another”, but sees some kind of interconnection between events (Lyotard, 1984, pg.37). This narrative knowledge is then able to be used to make sense of history. Meta-narratives, so to speak, embody narrative knowledge, this concept has been used throughout the ages. An example is the Tortoise and the Hare.
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