Korf

George Orwell's Animal Farm Korf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: Pastoral Novels in English, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: George Orwell's story about the rebellion of farm animals chasing all humans from the farm and running the farm by their own power is well known by readers all over the world. This seminar paper will research why George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a fable based in a rural, English landscape. After a short biography about the author, the reader will be introduced into the meaning of fable and satire for the story and get an idea why the setting in a rural English scenery is meaningful to Orwell.