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helloo ..
i have a piece of english literacy homework due in tomorrow ..
and its ..
bring in Info About the historical Context of animal farm By George Orwell ...
Ive checked the internet and i dont know if im looking for the correct thing ..
so if you could please help me by copy and pasting it to me ..
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Answer 1

Did you read the book? How about you look at the date it was published and then look at what was going on in America during the 10 years around that date. Draw comparisons.
I don't think you'll find the answer all neatly packaged on the Internet...they want you toTHINK

Answer 2

I hope this extract can help you out a bit.

When Animal Farm was published in 1945, its British author George Orwell (a pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair) had already waited a year-and-a-half to see his manuscript in print. Because the book criticized the Soviet Union, one of England's allies in World War II, publication was delayed until the war ended. It was an immediate success as the first edition sold out in a month, nine foreign editions had appeared by the next year, and the American Book-of-the-Month Club edition sold more than a half-million copies. Although Orwell was an experienced columnist and essayist as well as the author of nine published books, nothing could have prepared him for the success of this short novel, so brief he had considered self-publishing it as a pamphlet. The novel brought together important themes—politics, truth, and class conflict—that had concerned Orwell for much of his life. Using allegory—the weapon used by political satirists of the past, including Voltaire and Swift—Orwell made his political statement in a twentieth-century fable that could be read as an entertaining story about animals or, on a deeper level, a savage attack on the misuse of political power. While Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a pointed criticism of Stalinist Russia, reviews of the book on the fiftieth-anniversary of its publication declared its message to be still relevant. In a play on the famous line from the book, "Some animals are more equal than others," an Economist reviewer wrote, "Some classics are more equal than others," and as proof he noted that Animal Farm has never been out of print since it was first published and continues to sell well year after year.

Answer 3

Napoleon = Stalin
Old Major = Lenin
Snowball = Trotsky
Squealer = Molotov
Mr Jones = Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Mr Frederick = Adolf Hitler
Mr Pilkington = the west (UK & USA)
Boxer = the oppressed working class
The Dogs = The secret police KGB etc.


Compare those characters in the story to their real life counterparts under the dictatorship of Stalin.

Answer 4

Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't you had six weeks or more to write this? Why leave it until the last minute? And shouldn't you be writing this on your own after having read the book rather than using someone else's brain and style of writing. Your teacher will find you out if you don't write it in your own style and language.

Just a thought.

Answer 5

Um I read this in seventh grade. Have you tried Sparknotes.com? Definitely try that. Historical context may be how one leader can turn into a diplomat and a society falls apart.

Answer 6

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The parallels between Animal Farm and Soviet History

http://www.studentske.sk/web.php?sk=The_parallels_between_Animal_Farm_and_Soviet_history.htm&pred=anglictina

STUDY GUIDES

These link will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions.

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/af/

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/animalfarm/

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmAnimalFarm02.asp

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-12.html

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/anifarm.asp

http://www.novelguide.com/animalfarm/

http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/summaries/animf.html

http://www.bookwolf.com/Free_Booknotes/Animal_Farm_by_George_Orwell/animal_farm_by_george_orwell.html

Answer 7

Just forget it - it's too nice a day to be working

Answer 8

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/

Answer 9

"During the mid-1930s Orwell, like many of his literary contemporaries, became increasingly preoccupied with the social and political concerns of the age. This period would ultimately define his artistic purpose and direction as a writer and simultaneously crystallize his prophetic vision of the future. Unquestionably a literary extension of Orwell's political development, Animal Farm is most often seen as a satire on totalitarian communism and the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. Orwell recognized the tendency of emerging political regimes to replace poverty with a form of security based on social and economic servitude. Committed to the preservation of intellectual liberty, he further realized the inherent danger of sacrificing this ideal to governmental control."

Animal Farm was published in August of 1945--a crucial moment in European and world history. In the previous four months, President Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler had died and Winston Churchill had been voted out of office. Germany had surrendered, and the U.S. had dropped atomic bombs over Japan. Of the big three Allied leaders, only Stalin survived.

In some ways, Animal Farm stands at the very beginning of the Cold War. During World War II, Russia had been an ally of the U.S. and England. After the battle of Normandy in February of 1944--when the Allies first began to beat back the German forces--Western nations felt a strong feeling of solidarity with the Russian people. The Russian army had suffered great losses, but it had helped protect England from a German invasion. As a result of the pro-Russian atmosphere, Orwell had a hard time finding a publisher for Animal Farm.

However, in the years following Animal Farm's publication, Russia fell farther and farther out of favor. In this respect, the novel stands as a predictor of what would later come to pass. However, it is important to note that Orwell's attack of Russia did not come from the political right--as most capitalist thinkers would attack it. Rather, Orwellís complaint was from the left. He was concerned with the damage that the Soviet state did to the cause of socialism. He wrote in the preface to the Ukrainian edition:

"Nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of Socialism as the belief that Russia is a Socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the past ten years I have been convinced that the destruction of the socialist myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement."


"Animal Farm, written in 1945, deals with similar themes but in a shorter and somewhat simpler format. A “fairy story” in the style of Aesop’s fables, it uses animals on an English farm to tell the history of Soviet communism. Certain animals are based directly on Communist Party leaders: the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, for example, are figurations of Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky, respectively. Orwell uses the form of the fable for a number of aesthetic and political reasons. To better understand these, it is helpful to know at least the rudiments of Soviet history under Communist Party rule, beginning with the October Revolution of 1917.
In February 1917, Tsar Nicholas II, the monarch of Russia, abdicated and the socialist Alexander Kerensky became premier. At the end of October (November 7 on current calendars), Kerensky was ousted, and Vladimir Lenin, the architect of the Russian Revolution, became chief commissar. Almost immediately, as wars raged on virtually every Russian front, Lenin’s chief allies began jockeying for power in the newly formed state; the most influential included Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Gregory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev. Trotsky and Stalin emerged as the most likely heirs to Lenin’s vast power. Trotsky was a popular and charismatic leader, famous for his impassioned speeches, while the taciturn Stalin preferred to consolidate his power behind the scenes. After Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin orchestrated an alliance against Trotsky that included himself, Zinoviev, and Kaminev. In the following years, Stalin succeeded in becoming the unquestioned dictator of the Soviet Union and had Trotsky expelled first from Moscow, then from the Communist Party, and finally from Russia altogether in 1936. Trotsky fled to Mexico, where he was assassinated on Stalin’s orders in 1940.
In 1934, Stalin’s ally Serge Kirov was assassinated in Leningrad, prompting Stalin to commence his infamous purges of the Communist Party. Holding “show trials”—trials whose outcomes he and his allies had already decided—Stalin had his opponents officially denounced as participants in Trotskyist or anti-Stalinist conspiracies and therefore as “enemies of the people,” an appellation that guaranteed their immediate execution. As the Soviet government’s economic planning faltered and failed, Russia suffered under a surge of violence, fear, and starvation. Stalin used his former opponent as a tool to placate the wretched populace. Trotsky became a common national enemy and thus a source of negative unity. He was a frightening specter used to conjure horrifying eventualities, in comparison with which the current misery paled. Additionally, by associating his enemies with Trotsky’s name, Stalin could ensure their immediate and automatic elimination from the Communist Party.
These and many other developments in Soviet history before 1945 have direct parallels in Animal Farm: Napoleon ousts Snowball from the farm and, after the windmill collapses, uses Snowball in his purges just as Stalin used Trotsky. Similarly, Napoleon becomes a dictator, while Snowball is never heard from again. Orwell was inspired to write Animal Farm in part by his experiences in a Trotskyist group during the Spanish Civil War, and Snowball certainly receives a more sympathetic portrayal than Napoleon. But though Animal Farm was written as an attack on a specific government, its general themes of oppression, suffering, and injustice have far broader application; modern readers have come to see Orwell’s book as a powerful attack on any political, rhetorical, or military power that seeks to control human beings unjustly."

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