ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Animal Farm is a satire
A
published after World War I
B
written by Graham Green
C
published after World War II
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Animal Farm is a beast fable, in the form of a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Secker & Warburg, considered to be anti-fascist and anti-Soviet, eventually published Animal Farm: A Fairy Story-on August 17, 1946, more than three months after the war in Europe ended.

Detailed explanation-3: -Animal Farm is George Orwell’s satire on equality, where all barnyard animals live free from their human masters’ tyranny. Inspired to rebel by Major, an old boar, animals on Mr. Jones’ Manor Farm embrace Animalism and stage a revolution to achieve an idealistic state of justice and progress.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thus Animal Farm is an allegory of Russian Revolution in 1917. Animal farm is a political satire as it satires the Russian revolution know as Bolshevik revolution Orwell satirizes the men by calling him a pig and the ways he adopts to beguile other are also ridiculous.

Detailed explanation-5: -The book Animal Farm, is a political satire of a totalitarian society ruled by a mighty dictatorship, in all probability an allegory for the events surrounding the Russian Revolution. The animals of “Manor Farm” overthrow their human master (Mr. Jones) after a long history of mistreatment.

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