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Animal Farm, the story which tells what happens when the animals on the farm drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves, was written by George Orwell at a time when there was much political discourse and uncertainty in Britain due to their ties with the Soviet Union. Orwell had a strong sense of right and wrong, and for this reason he became a sharp critic of both communism and socialism, and instead an advocate of freedom from oppression. Thus, Orwell’s principal reason for writing Animal Farm was because, as he put it afterwards, “there was some lie I wanted to expose, some fact to which I wanted to draw attention”. But his “initial concern was to get a hearing”, to have his story heard. In order to ensure his ideas were presented successfully to his readers, Orwell used many means of conveying them effectively, through his use of language, the perspective of the narrative of Animal Farm, and also through the idea of this tale being a fictional “fairy story”. All these things came together to produce for readers quite a clear picture of his beliefs and opinions at that point in time, and did so in such a way that was also able to be published. Orwell’s use of language and the way he strings words together is probably the most effective of his mediums for communication.
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