Engagement:
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
1945
Page Count:
112
Where to Buy:
Animal Farm
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Content Ratings
Moderate Themes
The novel is a sustained allegory about political betrayal, the corruption of revolutionary idealism into tyranny, propaganda, and the silencing of dissent; the systematic execution of political opponents is emotionally disturbing despite the animal framing.
Moderate Violence
Animals are executed by other animals on trumped-up charges in a public purge; a horse is sent to the slaughterhouse; battles against human farmers are depicted; violence is not graphic but is shocking within the fable's frame.
Synopsis
When the animals of Manor Farm overthrow their human farmer and establish a self-governing society based on equality, the pigs slowly consolidate power and the farm's revolutionary ideals are distorted beyond recognition. A sharp, accessible political allegory targeting Stalinist Soviet tyranny, told through the deceptively simple fable of talking farm animals. Brief, brilliantly constructed, and deeply unsettling in its conclusions.