Transcript Animal Farm
Animal Farm Satire, Fable, Irony, & Allegory Animal Farm Satire • Witty, ironic, and often exaggerated. It uses extremes to bring its audience to a renewed awareness of its ethical and spiritual danger. • Concerned with ethical reform. It attacks those institutions or individuals the satirist deems corrupt. • Works to make vice laughable and/or reprehensible and thus bring social pressure on those who still engage in wrongdoing. • Seeks a reform in public behavior or a wake-up call in an otherwise corrupt culture. In what ways is Animal Farm a satire? Discuss with examples from the novella. Fable • Have characters who are usually animals and can talk, think, and act like humans. • Have everyday problems people face and are usually relatable to the audience. • Short, direct stories with lots of action. • Teaches a useful lesson or moral that is stated at the end of the story. • Fiction In what ways is Animal Farm a fable? In what ways is it not a fable? Irony referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem. • Verbal irony refers to a situation where a character says something, but the opposite of what is said is meant. • Situational irony refers to a situation where something happens, but it is the opposite of what was expected to happen. • Dramatic irony refers to a situation where the audience knows something about the interactions between the characters that the characters themselves do not. In what ways is Animal Farm ironic? Which type(s) of irony? Allegory • Written in the form of fables, parables, poems, stories, and almost any other style or genre. • Tells a story that has characters, a setting, as well as other types of symbols that have both literal and figurative meanings. • The difference between an allegory and a symbol is that an allegory is a complete narrative that conveys abstract ideas to get a point across, while a symbol is a representation of an idea or concept that can have a different meaning throughout a literary work. In what ways is Animal Farm an allegory? Discuss the parallels between Russian history and the novella.