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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.
After Orwell's death in 1950, his widow Sonia Orwell sold the film rights to Animal Farm to film executives Carleton Alsop and Farris Farr. Unbeknownst to her, they were actually undercover agents for the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Policy Coordination, which was funding anti-communist art for E. Howard Hunt's Psychological Warfare Workshop.
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.
Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 [1] [2] – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 [3] and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the animated feature film Animal Farm (1954), which made her the first woman director of an animated feature since Lotte Reiniger.
Animal Farm is a 1999 political comedy-drama television film directed by John Stephenson and written by Alan Janes.Based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Orwell and serving as an allegory of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, the film features an ensemble cast including Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Julia Ormond, Paul Scofield, Charles Dale ...
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Revolutionary Leader of Animal Farm Major , also called the Willingdon Beauty during showings , is the first major character described by George Orwell in his 1945 novella Animal Farm . An elderly Middle White boar, his " purebred " of pigs is a kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change.
Mr. Jones of Manor Farm is a fictional character in George Orwell's 1945 allegorical novella Animal Farm. Jones is an allegory for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia . Jones is overthrown by the animals of his farm, who represent Bolshevik and liberal revolutionaries.