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the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint, or absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government. throughout the novel we see the examples of freedom and how it can be contradicted.

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It just might be the only thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, for those who might be described as an oppressed labourer.  Animal Farm displays the principle, Moses might be a manipulative liar, but his little tale about "Sugarcandy Mountain" is also the only thing that keeps the animals going after a long day of hauling hay.

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"intended it primarily as a satire on the Russian revolution. But I did mean it to have a wider application in so much that I meant that that kind of revolution (violent conspiratorial revolution, led by unconsciously power-hungry people) can only lead to a change of masters. I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job. The turning-point of the story was supposed to be when the pigs kept the milk and apples for themselves (Kronstadt).1 If the other animals had had the sense to put their foot down then, it would have been all right. "

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Eric Arthur Blair, he was born in 1903 in India and he had died in 1950 in England. Orwell is most famous for the two best selling novels Animal Farm and 1984. He never abandoned his name but when his first novel came out in 1933 as the work of George Orwell, he had inspiration for the name from the beautiful River Orwell in East Anglia.

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This lesson shows the parallels between Animal Farm and the real world.

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Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

2011
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella

1996

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Orwell picked the setting of the farm because it would work well as an allegory.  With no intention of criticism, Orwell made the setting to be an english farm instead of a russian one for the purpose to bring it closer to home for most readers and himself.

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The animals all assemble in the barn to hear a respected boar named Old Major speak. Old Major proceeds to share his dream of a world without men, one ruled by animals. He points out that all of the suffering endured by the animals is the result of man. Mr. Jones forces the animals to work too hard and then steals the products of their labor.