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In Animal Farm, the animals win freedom from their masters, but soon learn that "some animals are more equal than others."
Animal Farm = Orwell's satire of the betrayal of the Russian Revolution (1945)
- Initially, Orwell had trouble getting Animal Farm published because it was written at a time when Russia was an ally against Nazi Germany and when the intelligentsia generally held Stalin's Russia as a model for progress.
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- She challenged my substitution— in Grade 11—of Orwell's Burmese Days for Orwell's Animal Farm.† (source)
- George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) is popular among many readers precisely because it's relatively easy to figure out what it all means.† (source)
- We were working on Animal Farm, an easy subject matter.† (source)
- Instead of coming home during the summers like most students, she takes additional classes with the intention of graduating early and spends her afternoons working at a place called Animal Farm.† (source)
- In terms of "lasting importance," it was Nineteen Eighty-four or Animal Farm; Burmese Days, she said, was "a poor substitute."† (source)
- Have we not driven the enemy off our soil — the sacred soil of Animal Farm?† (source)
- This morning I saw you looking over the hedge that divides Animal Farm from Foxwood.† (source)
- Mr. Pilkington had referred throughout to 'Animal Farm.'† (source)
- By the late summer the news of what had happened on Animal Farm had spread across half the county.† (source)
- In April, Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a President.† (source)
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- Long live Animal Farm!† (source)
- Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm.† (source)
- One symptom of this was that they had begun to call Animal Farm by its proper name and ceased to pretend that it was called the Manor Farm.† (source)
- He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county.† (source)
- At the graveside Snowball made a little speech, emphasising the need for all animals to be ready to die for Animal Farm if need be.† (source)
- He could not of course know — for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it — that the name 'Animal Farm' had been abolished.† (source)
- 'Gentlemen,' concluded Mr. Pilkington, 'gentlemen, I give you a toast: To the prosperity of Animal Farm!'† (source)
- In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labor was lifted from the animals' backs.† (source)
- Napoleon ended his speech with his usual cry of 'Long live Animal Farm!' and after the singing of Beasts of England the animals were dismissed.† (source)
- It was lucky that the owners of the two farms which adjoined Animal Farm were on permanently bad terms.† (source)
- The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.† (source)
- More, they never lost, even for an instant, their sense of honor and privilege in being members of Animal Farm.† (source)
- Today he and his friends had visited Animal Farm and inspected every inch of it with their own eyes, and what did they find?† (source)
- He was deceived, and continued to report to the outside world that there was no food shortage on Animal Farm.† (source)
- At the same time there were renewed rumors that Frederick and his men were plotting to attack Animal Farm and to destroy the windmill, the building of which had aroused furious jealousy in him.† (source)
- These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.† (source)
- Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm.† (source)
- He would end his remarks, he said, by emphasising once again the friendly feelings that subsisted, and ought to subsist, between Animal Farm and its neighbors.† (source)
- Nevertheless, they were both thoroughly frightened by the rebellion on Animal Farm, and very anxious to prevent their own animals from learning too much about it.† (source)
- When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkington changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm.† (source)
- A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world, and would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions.† (source)
- Early in October, when the corn was cut and stacked and some of it was already threshed, a flight of pigeons came whirling through the air and alighted in the yard of Animal Farm in the wildest excitement.† (source)
- They put it about that the animals on the Manor Farm (they insisted on calling it the Manor Farm; they would not tolerate the name 'Animal Farm') were perpetually fighting among themselves and were also rapidly starving to death.† (source)
- Without any further prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick.† (source)
- From now onwards Animal Farm would engage in trade with the neighboring farms: not, of course, for any commercial purpose, but simply in order to obtain certain materials which were urgently necessary.† (source)
- Most of Animal Farm was within their view — the long pasture stretching down to the main road, the hayfield, the spinney, the drinking pool, the ploughed fields where the young wheat was thick and green, and the red roofs of the farm buildings with the smoke curling from the chimneys.† (source)
- He was a sly-looking little man with side whiskers, a solicitor in a very small way of business, but sharp enough to have realized earlier than anyone else that Animal Farm would need a broker and that the commissions would be worth having.† (source)
- This bon mot set the table in a roar; and Mr. Pilkington once again congratulated the pigs on the low rations, the long working hours, and the general absence of pampering which he had observed on Animal Farm.† (source)
- In its place Minimus, the poet, had composed another song which began: Animal Farm, Animal Farm, Never through me shalt thou come to harm! and this was sung every Sunday morning after the hoisting of the flag.† (source)
- At the beginning, when the laws of Animal Farm were first formulated, the retiring age had been fixed for horses and pigs at twelve, for cows at fourteen, for dogs at nine, for sheep at seven, and for hens and geese at five.† (source)
- At the same time Napoleon assured the animals that the stories of an impending attack on Animal Farm were completely untrue, and that the tales about Frederick's cruelty to his own animals had been greatly exaggerated.† (source)
- Frederick, it was said, intended to bring against them twenty men all armed with guns, and he had already bribed the magistrates and police, so that if he could once get hold of the title-deeds of Animal Farm they would ask no questions.† (source)
- There had been a time — not that he, or any of the present company, had shared such sentiments — but there had been a time when the respected proprietors of Animal Farm had been regarded, he would not say with hostility, but perhaps with a certain measure of misgiving, by their human neighbors.† (source)
- At about the same time it was given out that Napoleon had arranged to sell the pile of timber to Mr. Pilkington; he was also going to enter into a regular agreement for the exchange of certain products between Animal Farm and Foxwood.† (source)
- Except through Whymper, there was as yet no contact between Animal Farm and the outside world, but there were constant rumors that Napoleon was about to enter into a definite business agreement either with Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood or with Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield — but never, it was noticed, with both simultaneously.† (source)
- Long live Animal Farm!† (source)
- Then Snowball (for it was Snowball who was best at writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter, painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM.† (source)
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