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Resource Key
Resource Level
We have graded each source in this Research Guide according to the following levels.
Level 1
Brief, easy to read information which may be basic and use informal language. Newspaper articles are generally this level.
Level 2
Generally includes subject-specific language, provides additional reading and may provide additional background information.
Level 3
Typically, these will be longer in length, detailed and contain technical information.
Plot
Plot Summary
- Plot Summary | BBC Bitesize
"Animal farm by George Orwell is an allegory of the events of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It deals with the ideas of freedom, rebellion and the corrupting nature of power." - Plot Summary - Quiz | BBC Bitesize"It's time to revise and learn about the plot in Animal Farm by George Orwell with this activity. These questions will help you develop your understanding and really get to grips with this great text."
Characters
Characters
- Characters | BBC Bitesize"The characters in Animal farm can be split into three groups - the humans, the pigs, and the other farm animals. Each group represents a different element of the Russian Revolution in 1917."
- Characters Activity | BBC Bitesize"It's time to revise and learn about Animal Farm by George Orwell with this activity. This learning journey will help you develop your understanding of the characters and really get to grips with this great text."
study guides
Study Guides
- Animal Farm Study Guide | Course Hero
"Animal Farm has a third-person omniscient narrator and is written in the past tense. Animal Farm takes its name from the book's setting, Manor Farm, which the rebellious animals rename Animal Farm when they seize control ... " - Animal Farm | Spark Notes"...At first, Animal Farm prospers. Snowball works at teaching the animals to read, and Napoleon takes a group of young puppies to educate them in the principles of Animalism ..."
- How to Write about Animal Farm | Bloom's Literature"George Orwell's Animal Farm, first published in 1945 in England and 1946 in the United States and now firmly ensconced in the literary canon, is generally accepted to be a satire focused on the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath, in which leaders Lenin and Stalin ultimately destroyed the ideals of equality and self-determination that spawned the socialist revolution by allowing their thirst for power to corrupt them into betraying the very people they had pledged to represent ... "
- How to Write about George Orwell | Bloom's Literature"Even if you know very little of the man himself, chances are you know at least a little something of George Orwell's works ... Orwell's influence on Western culture has been so great, however, that even those few people who have never read a word of Orwell's writing may very well have used the not uncommon adjective Orwellian to describe an overly intrusive government or institution ... "
- Animal Farm Study Guide | Thought Co"Published in 1945, George Orwell's Animal Farm tells the story of a group of farm animals who stage a revolution and take over their farm. The revolution begins with principled idealism, but its pig leaders become increasingly corrupt. They soon turn to manipulation and propaganda in order to maintain power and control, and the farm becomes a totalitarian regime. With this narrative, Orwell creates a searing political allegory about the failures of the Russian Revolution ... "
- Animal Farm: Critical Insights
"Contextualizes the allegorical novel that established George Orwell as the greatest British satirist since Jonathan Swift ... "
About George Orwell
About George Orwell
- Animal Farm | In Our Time"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Animal Farm, which Eric Blair published under his pen name George Orwell in 1945."
About George Orwell
