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    George Orwell employed various literary devices and narrative structures in Animal Farm to achieve his purpose of critiquing totalitarianism through allegory and satire. Some key points: - Orwell used conventions of fairy tales like anthropomorphism to make his critique more accessible, though the characters do not "live happily ever after". - The farm animals symbolize the common people, while the pigs represent those in power, like Stalin. Orwell relies on symbolism to indirectly criticize Stalin due to the danger of doing so directly. - The narrative structure mirrors the political spectrum and rise and fall of revolution in a cynical way. Benjamin, a symbol of fatalism, foreshadows the outcome that "all animals are

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    George Orwell employed various literary devices and narrative structures in Animal Farm to achieve his purpose of critiquing totalitarianism through allegory and satire. Some key points: - Orwell used conventions of fairy tales like anthropomorphism to make his critique more accessible, though the characters do not "live happily ever after". - The farm animals symbolize the common people, while the pigs represent those in power, like Stalin. Orwell relies on symbolism to indirectly criticize Stalin due to the danger of doing so directly. - The narrative structure mirrors the political spectrum and rise and fall of revolution in a cynical way. Benjamin, a symbol of fatalism, foreshadows the outcome that "all animals are

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    Animal Farm

    Lesson 5:
    Authorial Craft
    Learning Objective
    To analyse Orwell’s authorial craft.

    Success Criteria
    • I can evaluate authorial intent.
    • I can recognise a range of literary devices.
    • I can comment on the significance of structure.
    Authorial Intent
    Style and form are affected by audience
    and purpose.

    Match the purpose to the best form:

    Analyse a text in
    Basic rhyme
    an exam

    Ask an author to
    PEE paragraphs
    visit the school

    Get children to
    Formal letter
    eat their greens

    What was George Orwell’s purpose in writing Animal


    Farm and who was his message aimed at?
    Form – A Fairy Story
    List as many conventions of fairy stories as
    you can.
    For example, talking animals.

    How many of these conventions are


    ticked off in Animal Farm?

    Note: ‘Orwell employs the fairy story


    convention of anthropomorphism’ sounds
    more academic than ‘Orwell uses talking
    animals to make it like a fairy story’!
    Form - Satire
    It has been suggested that Orwell subtitled
    his novel A Fairy Story to signpost its
    universal, allegorical properties.
    However dubbing a critique of
    totalitarianism, in which the characters
    definitely don’t live happily ever after, A
    Fairy Story might also be deemed satirical.
    A satire is a work which uses humour, irony
    or wit to highlight the vices, follies and
    pretensions of people, particularly those in
    power.

    What is Satire?
    Satire Explained

    Examples
    Standardized Testing, Newzoids
    Form - Satire
    Chapter VIII Spot the satire
    Read from ‘It was a few days later than this
    that the pigs came upon a case of whisky…’ to
    ‘…it soon became known that Napoleon
    intended to sow it with barley’.

    What other examples


    can you give?
    Symbolism
    The principal target of Orwell’s satire is
    Stalin’s Soviet Union.
    Directly criticising Stalin was a life-
    threatening act so Orwell relies heavily
    on symbolism to make his points, often
    making them more witty and thought-
    provoking.

    What might these things symbolise?

    • the farmhouse
    • the windmill

    What other examples of


    symbolism can you give?
    Structure
    The Political Spectrum
    Left Right

    Communism Fascism

    Narrative Structure

    Beginning Middle End

    • What do you notice about each of these paradigms?


    • Are they an accurate representation of Animal Farm?
    Structure
    Political Cynical
    Horse-shoe Narrative

    Centre

    Manor
    g i n ning
    Left Right Farm Be

    Middle
    Animal
    Farm
    Manor
    En
    Far Far Farm d
    left Lunatic right
    fringe

    Is this mirroring intentional?


    Fatalism
    ‘He would say that God had given him
    a tail to keep the flies off, but that he
    would sooner have had no tail
    and no flies.’

    Benjamin is a symbol of fatalism, the belief


    that an outcome is predetermined and
    inevitable regardless of personal effort.
    How does this quote foreshadow that
    ‘All animals are equal but some animals
    are more equal than others’?

    • Is Orwell a fatalist (we’ve come full circle to


    authorial intent!)?
    • In what ways is Benjamin a symbol of Orwell?

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