Effective Use Of Allegory In George Orwell's Animal Farm

A Message Through Everyman It is very popular in literature to use allegory to communicate a different idea through characters, scene, or setting. Literary tools are often used to spice up writing and better communicate themes or ideas. Moral plays are big contribute many literary elements in their writing, especially allegories. “Everyman” uses the personas to represent loftier ideas. “Everyman” the play, used allegorical characters much like “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, the character Goods represents physically possessions, embodying the friends of Everyman is Fellowship, and Mr. Jones from “Animal Farm” serves as Czar Nicholas II. In the play “Everyman” the unknown author uses allegories to represent the abstract idea of earthly

George Orwell, the author, used the piece to speak about communist Russia by using a farm as an allegory. One of the characters he used was Mr. Jones who representer Czar Nicholas II, he was the Russian leader before communists overthrew him. Mr Jones was the farmer who took care of the the animals. The animals represent different citizens of Russia, major economic groups, and the media in Russia. Mr. Jones was overthrown by the Pigs, who represented the communists. It has been acknowledged that Czar Nicholas II had a lot of personal issues while governing Russia, this is referred to in the novel when the narrator says “Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.” ( Orwell 1). Both in Russia and on the farm, the issues of the current leader made it easier for the people, or pigs to take over country or farm. When Russia was taken, over Czar Nicholas tried to flee, much like Mr. Jones, as seen in the quote “Mrs. Jones looked out of the bedroom window, saw what was happening, hurriedly flung a few possessions into a carpet

Jones from “Animal Farm” represents Czar Nicholas II. Allegories are a very creative way to make large and often complicated and controversial ideas more understable for anyone. Every time a book is read, even a common one, there is often an allegory hidden, or not so hidden, in it. It is important to analyze these allegories and major ideas so we can learn the lessons the author meant for us to