6/20/2023 0 Comments Sparknotes animal farm![]() ![]() It is important to remember that this period represented the recent past and present at the time of writing and that Orwell understands the significance of the story’s action to be immediate and ongoing rather than historical. It is fair to assume, however, that Orwell means the fable to be contemporaneous with the object of its satire, the Russian Revolution (1917–1945). Setting (time) As is the case with most fables, Animal Farm is set in an unspecified time period and is largely free from historical references that would allow the reader to date the action precisely. The mixture of this tone with the outrageous trajectory of the plot, however, steeps the story in an ever-mounting irony. Tone For the most part, the tone of the novel is objective, stating external facts and rarely digressing into philosophical meditations. Point of view The story is told from the point of view of the common animals of Animal Farm, though it refers to them in the third person plural as “they.” The anonymous narrator of the story is almost a nonentity, notable for no individual idiosyncrasies or biases. Narrator Animal Farm is the only work by Orwell in which the author does not appear conspicuously as a narrator or major character it is the least overtly personal of all of his writings. Time and place written 1943–1944, in London Genre Dystopian animal fable satire allegory political roman à clef (French for “novel with a key”-a thinly veiled exposé of factual persons or events) Author George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair) ![]()
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