Background & Historical Information- Animal Farm

by George Orwell. Key Vocabulary: Allegory. Satire. Communism. Czar Nicholas II. Karl Marx. Joseph Stalin. Russian Revolution of 1917. Novel Structure. To convey his political message, Orwell employs the literary forms of allegory, satire, and fable. An . allegory. is a story that can be read on two distinct levels. ................
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