English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1608 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm
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The idea
Animal Farm, of nineteen forty-five, is a beast fable allegorizing the Russian Revolution and Stalinism. Nineteen Eighty-Four, of nineteen forty-nine, imagines Britain as Airstrip One in the totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by Big Brother through surveillance.
In practice
A farm allegory; a surveillance state.
Where people slip
Plot details here rest on one reference source.
Your place on the trail
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