Animal Farm

Authors commonly use literary elements and literary techniques to convey a central idea in their work. In Animal Farm, George Orwell does this extremely well. Mr. Orwell uses literary elements and techniques to symbolize the conflict between Joseph Stalin and his men and everyone he was ruling.

George Orwell uses literary elements such as Symbolism to relate Animal Farm to Russia. All the animals live in the farm house except for Mr. Jones and later in the story, the pigs. “It was about this time the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there.” The farmhouse symbolizes the division of power between the residence of the farm house and the regular house, just as Stalin lived a luxurious life while his people were

killed, starved and cold living on the streets. When the pigs persuaded the other animals into building the windmill. “ Napoleon had never been opposed to the windmill on the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning.” The windmill shows how the pigs manipulated the farm animals to make them think it's for their own good just as Stalin manipulated his people the same way. George Orwell uses symbolism to show how Stalin controlled Russia.
In Animal Farm George Orwell uses Irony to express how the pigs are hypocrites just like Stalin.

“Silent and terrified, the animals crept back. At first, no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was solved: they were puppies who NApoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately. Though not yet full-grown theses were huge dogs, as fierce looking as wolves. They kept close to Napoleon , It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had used to with Mr. Jones.” This is Ironic because the pigs came up with the rule that no one can act like humans. Stalin was also A hypocrite like this. “Mr. Pilkington had referred throughout to Animal Farm. 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. Henceforward the farm was to be known as Manor Farm-which, he believed was its correct and original name.” This is ironic because the animals change the name from Animal Farm to Manor Farm even though the animals completely run the farm. Irony is used in Animal Farm to portray the way Stalin was hypocritical and sometimes “bending” the truth and what he told his

citizens.
In Animal Farm, The animals were controlled, persuaded, and manipulated just like the citizens of Russia were when Stalin was in power. Orwell used symbolism to relate how Napoleon and the rest of the pigs persuaded and manipulated the other animals on the farm just as Stalin did to the citizens of Russia. George Orwell uses symbolism and Irony excellently in Animal Farm as he compares this farm of animals to 1920s Russia