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

When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkmgton changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm.

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