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No one spots the 'elephant in the room' in Animal Farm. The novel is a thinly disguised morality play about aristocracy -- "humans" who own and govern 'their f
by 37129768 3y ago
No one spots the 'elephant in the room' in Animal Farm.
The novel is a thinly disguised morality play about aristocracy -- "humans" who own and govern 'their farms' ! -- with various types of humanity depicted as "animals".
The moral of the story is that regardless of the intelligence and abilities of the common man ("pigs"), the natural order of things is for 'Farmers' to own and run the 'Farm' and its 'Animals'.
Pigs joining Farmers actually occurred a couple of centuries earlier in England. It was called a "Corporation".
- Filligree 3y agoNo one? I thought that was glaringly obvious.
- drekipus 3y agoYou cracked the case
- esperent 3y agoThat's a possible interpretation but a more common understanding is that it's an allegory of recent (at the time) Russian history where the old aristocrats were overthrown to be replaced by communists with lofty ideals, however those ideals quickly fell away and the society went back to something similar to what came before, just with a different set of assholes in charge. I think if you read more of Orwell's writing besides just Animal Farm, you'd see that he didn't think this was the only possibility. He was a democratic socialist and humanist. If he was saying it's the natural order of things under monarchy and under communism, that doesn't mean he was claiming it to be the natural order of things under all possible political systems. His political views had a wider scope than just this one short story.
- throwaway154 3y agoHotline to Marx, he might like to add this detail.
- avgcorrection 3y agoThis would be so on point if the authorial intent wasn't revealed by the very link in this submission.