George Orwell?
4 May 2010
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I have to write a paper including literary criticism on George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. I am not exactly sure what this is, could someone point me to a website where I could find it? Thanks
I have to write a paper including literary criticism on George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. I am not exactly sure what this is, could someone point me to a website where I could find it? Thanks
Sure of lit crit or sure of 1984 and Animal Farm? Lit crit looks at a story an analyses the symbols used and their meaning, the themes dealt with and what the author meant by them. Animal Farm is a satire on the development of the Soviet Union from a workers state following overthrow of the Czar (farmer and his family) to a dictatorship under the pigs.
There’s been lots of lit crit on both books, some of it very unfavorable by Marxists who found their ox being gored. Go to wikipedia and enter Orwell’s name and the names of the books into the search box (one at a time!). The bibliography at the end of the articles will give you some additional leads if the articles themselves aren’t enough.
Sometimes lit crit gets rather silly, as in long articles studying why Orwell chose the year 1984.
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