Critic's Agenda

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell(Eric Blair), first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. About the Author Eric Blair was born and spent his youth in India. He was educated at Eton in England and from 1922-27, he served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. Through his autobiographical work about poverty in London ( Down and Out in Paris and London , 1933), his experiences in colonial Burma ( Burmese Days , 1934), and in the Spanish Civil War ( Homage to Catalonia , 1938), and the plight of unemployed coal miners in England ( The Road to Wigan Pier , 1937), Blair, who wrote under the name George Orwell, exposed and critiqued the human tendency to oppress others politically, economically, and physically. Orwell particularly hated totalitarianism, and his most famous novels, Animal Farm and 1984 a...