Dramatic Irony In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a novel written by George Orwell. The book was written during World War II and published in 1945, although it was not widely successful until the late 1950s. It is retelling the story of the appearance and growth of Soviet communism in the form of animals living on a farm as they overcome their leader and eventually take over and from there establish Animal Farm. Throughout the novel, the narrator is speaking in third person perspective which allows the readers to know most of the inner feelings of a character and gives the readers information that the characters in the story do not know yet. Orwell uses dramatic, situational and verbal irony to relate it back to the events the occurred in the Russian Revolution. In this novel, there are moments of dramatic irony that are displayed, that brings substance to the plot. Dramatic Irony is when the reader knows something the character does not know. The reader knows what the rules say because they are able to read and since animals do not have the knowledge, the pigs take advantage blindness and slowly take over the entire farm. For instance, “Had not these been among the earliest resolutions passed at that first triumphant Meeting after Jones was expelled? All the animals remembered passing such resolutions: or at
The narrator speaking in third person perspective allowed the audience to divulge deeper into the literature of the book through verbal, situational and dramatic irony. Third person narrative is a very effective tool in creating installation in a novel. Also, the irony that the narrator utilizes allows exploitation of the characters’ development and sequence of events. The imagery used in this book was a metaphor to the Russian Revolution. This placed not only a realistic connection on the reader, but a very fictional one as well. The importance of these three ironies made the novel exciting, vivid and