The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology, 2020, 2(3); doi: 10.25236/FSST.2020.020308.
Ma Guocheng
Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin 300000, China
As a socialist with multi-layers of backgrounds, George Orwell created Animal Farm which gained its fame as a political allegory to showcase his personal belief and political standpoints. Labeled as one of the most thought-provoking novels in the twentieth century, Animal Farm exposes the dark side of totalitarian and dictatorship through absurdity. However more than absurdity, it reflects reality with symbolism. This paper tries to explain the symbolism existing in the absurdity of Animal Farm through three aspects: characters, plots, and themes respectively.
Animal farm; Symbolism; Absurdity
Ma Guocheng. Symbolism in the Absurdity of Animal Farm. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 3: 35-37. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2020.020308.
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