Saturday, September 15, 2012

What is the setting for Animal Farm?

In addition to the above details, Manor Farm seems to be wedged between or at least neighbors with two farmers, Pilkington and Fredrick.


Manor Farm is set to represent Russian Revolution era Russia, while these two other farms might represent Great Britian, Germany, and/or the United States. Each of these countries had a different political ideology from one another as well as Russia. Setting involves both time and place and the Russian Revolution took place in 1917-18, while the reign of Lenin lasted until 1924. Since Stalin is represented by Napoleon, the represented activity of the book took place after that.

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