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Plato in the Republic discusses a "healthy state" of simplicity as "a city for pigs" (Greek: huōn polis). [18] In Wu Cheng'en's 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, Zhu Bajie is part human, part pig. [19] In books, poems and cartoons in 18th-century England, The Learned Pig was a trained animal who appeared to be able to answer ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Pigs in literature" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 ...
Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.
Squealer is a fictional character, a pig, in George Orwell's 1945 novel Animal Farm.He serves as second-in-command to Napoleon and is the farm's minister of propaganda.He is described in the book as an effective and very convincing orator and a fat porker.
Puppet pigs who spoke in speeded up voices, created by Czech immigrants Jan and Vlasta Dalibor (BBC television, from 1968). Pinky and Perky The Good Life (1975 TV series) Two pigs who belong to Tom and Barbera Good. Professor Strangepork: The Muppet Show: Purk Sesamstraat: A baby puppet from the Dutch version of Sesame Street. Scruffy the pig ...
This list of fictional rodents in literature is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and covers all rodents appearing in printed works of literature including beavers, chipmunks, gophers, guinea pigs, hamsters, marmots, prairie dogs, and porcupines plus the extinct prehistoric species (such as Rugosodon).
Pigs have been brought into literature for varying reasons, ranging from the pleasures of eating, as in Charles Lamb's A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, to William Golding's Lord of the Flies (with the fat character "Piggy"), where the rotting boar's head on a stick represents Beelzebub, "lord of the flies" being the direct translation of the ...
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