George Orwell's Animal FarmHarold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom Tracing the rise of Napoleon as the leader of the barnyard animals and his ensuing dictatorship in the farmyard community, this classic satiric allegory serves as a warning to all societies as it depicts the slide from revolution to totalitarianism. Orwell transforms the seeming pastoral innocence of his setting into a pernicious political theater of repression and control. This new edition of critical essays examining Animal Farm provides 10 to 12 full-length critical essays for students of literature, plus a chronology of the author's life, a bibliography, an index, and notes on the contributing writers. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Political Fiction and Patriarchal Fantasy | 3 |
An Allegory of Revolution | 23 |
Language as Theme in Animal Farm | 35 |
Revolution on Animal Farm | 45 |
Animal Farm | 59 |
Orwell Tolstoy and Animal Farm | 79 |
An Absence of Pampering | 87 |
George Orwells Dystopias | 125 |
Chronology | 151 |
Contributors | 153 |
155 | |
Acknowlegments | 159 |
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