How Does Dickens Use Satire In Animal Farm
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Great Expectations, By: Charles Dickens
An Outpost of Progress, By: Joseph Conrad
Animal Farm, By: George Orwell
Satire; A Thumbs up for readers.
When writing a book, authors try to focus upon drawing their reader’s attention. What better way to do that than the use of satire? Through out many books, such as, Great Expectations, Animal Farm, and An Outpost of Progress, satire is used prominently. In theses stories, satire is used as a base for corruption, chaos and much irony.
Great Expectations is one of Dickens most famous novels. It is often wondered why it is such a popular book. The answer is simple, the use of satire. From the moment Pip is introduced, to the point in which him and Estella supposedly fall in love, Dickens has placed his sense of satire to please the reader’s sense of feelings for the characters. This young boy named Pip was not raised in …show more content…
If a reader doesn’t know this then they might not have gotten the irony and chaos presented by George Orwell. For example, after Mr. Jones was over thrown from his own farm, the animals took over; more specifically the pigs took charge. The pigs, including Snowball and others, decided they where smarter and that they should run the farm. The animals as a whole had agreed, the irony, the pigs sat around and encouraged the animals to work while they reaped the benefits. These “leaders” had become dictators. Orwell was able to take some of the worst stories and people of the time and turned them into animals. By satirizing his story, people could distance themselves from the horrors of war. It was almost as if he wrote a fairy tale for adults. Animal Farm is a story full of satirizing from point A to point B and is used in what seems to be every last sentence. A simple quote from the book showing satire, “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
Great Expectations, By: Charles Dickens
An Outpost of Progress, By: Joseph Conrad
Animal Farm, By: George Orwell
Satire; A Thumbs up for readers.
When writing a book, authors try to focus upon drawing their reader’s attention. What better way to do that than the use of satire? Through out many books, such as, Great Expectations, Animal Farm, and An Outpost of Progress, satire is used prominently. In theses stories, satire is used as a base for corruption, chaos and much irony.
Great Expectations is one of Dickens most famous novels. It is often wondered why it is such a popular book. The answer is simple, the use of satire. From the moment Pip is introduced, to the point in which him and Estella supposedly fall in love, Dickens has placed his sense of satire to please the reader’s sense of feelings for the characters. This young boy named Pip was not raised in …show more content…
If a reader doesn’t know this then they might not have gotten the irony and chaos presented by George Orwell. For example, after Mr. Jones was over thrown from his own farm, the animals took over; more specifically the pigs took charge. The pigs, including Snowball and others, decided they where smarter and that they should run the farm. The animals as a whole had agreed, the irony, the pigs sat around and encouraged the animals to work while they reaped the benefits. These “leaders” had become dictators. Orwell was able to take some of the worst stories and people of the time and turned them into animals. By satirizing his story, people could distance themselves from the horrors of war. It was almost as if he wrote a fairy tale for adults. Animal Farm is a story full of satirizing from point A to point B and is used in what seems to be every last sentence. A simple quote from the book showing satire, “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”