Animal Farm

American  

noun

1. a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.

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Animal Farm Cultural  

1. (1945) A novel of satire by George Orwell. Animals take over a farm to escape human tyranny, but the pigs treat the other animals worse than the people did. A famous quotation from the book is “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

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Example Sentences

The pigs in Animal Farm start to act more and more like humans - living it up in the old farmer's house, while the rest of the animals toil away, often cold, hungry and over-worked.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2023

In the process, McKibben leaves out from his apt comparison the unfortunate re-establishment of a totalitarian regime that occurred inside Animal Farm after the revolution.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

Seventy-five years ago, in August 1946, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" was published in the United States.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2021

But free speech is not served when some users are more “equal” than others—to borrow from Orwell’s Animal Farm.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2020

At the graveside Snowball made a little speech, emphasising the need for all animals to be ready to die for Animal Farm if need be.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell