Animal Farm

Animal Farm

Animal Farm
By David Jones

Question:
The Text can have mass appeal and at the same time address simple and complex issues. Discuss this statement with the reference to one print text.


"Every line I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism," quotes George Orwell in the preference to the 1956 signet classic edition of Animal Farm. It is in Animal Farm, lesser talked about for the author's social theories in 1984, that Orwell's criticism can be seen as well as Orwell's social theory, which can be seen through a careful reading of what the animals refer to as "Animalism". Animalism has it's faults and inaccuracies, but Orwrell's use of it is to put forth his own political and social doctrine based on remedying those faults. Such issues as propaganda, power, greed, corruption and knowledge are issues which can relate to masses of people as we are dealing with particular constitutions. Orwell puts his views across to capture mass appeal by using the issues he has expressed in his novel.


Mass Appeal occurs when an item has appealed to the majority of a group of people. George Orwell has used Animal Farm to show people his views on totalitarianism. Animal farm is basically about a communist government that started of giving all animals equal rights, then the greed of the leaders destroyed equality and saw them joining their initial enemies. As you can see we are in connection with particular constitutions, so the novel already deals with masses of people, but the way in which it has gained mass appeal is another story. Orwell has extensively used Animalism and this has given the novel two aspects to been seen from. Firstly it can be seen as a fairytale, or it can be seen as a novel attacking and criticizing the communist Russia and explaining the Russian Revolution. The way Animalism has been used, by giving people animal like qualities and relating their behaviors to animal like ones, has been a major factor....