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Animal Farm

American

noun

a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.

Animal Farm Cultural

(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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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

Two translators for the Korean YouTube channel SBS Animal Farm explain how they write subtitles for an English-language audience.

From Slate • May 14, 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

Did making this film prompt you to read or reread "Animal Farm"? Did you find new meaning in it, seeing monsters through talking animals?

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2020

In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the an-imals’ backs.

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

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