The era that brought a wide spectrum of new ideas to the written world, the era that made talking animals almost normal; welcome to postmodernism. Literature in this era was different from what was seen before. It was believed that everything that could have been written about was already done and then done once more. Writers took this and approached it with a positive attitude and made this for the better. Writers acquired what was already done and experimented and drew inspiration from that to make their own stories come alive (Shmoop). Postmodernism brought the new way of thinking out and made into something that was normal and a great thing to do. It went against what was ordinary and distinguished new ideas that were never looked at before.
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An example of this would be when there is a case of missing milk. Orwell describes “never mind the milk, comrades!" cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. - When they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.” (Orwell 9). There are suggestions of what could have happened in this situation or anything that really happened in the story but the direct truth is never revealed. Readers are left with minimal information and if they wish, they will have to figure out what happened on their own. Next, the reader is given an objective view of the story and is left to find the deeper message within it; “postmodernism prefers to dwell on the exterior image and avoids drawing conclusions or suggesting underlying meanings associated with the interior of objects and events” (Literary Articles). As Orwell describes the characters and presents some parts of the story, with outside knowledge we can see what he was really trying to do. Orwell demonstrates these connections when he writes “just at this moment Napoleon stood up - nine enormous dogs wearing brass−studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws. - Then he put
An example of this would be when there is a case of missing milk. Orwell describes “never mind the milk, comrades!" cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. - When they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.” (Orwell 9). There are suggestions of what could have happened in this situation or anything that really happened in the story but the direct truth is never revealed. Readers are left with minimal information and if they wish, they will have to figure out what happened on their own. Next, the reader is given an objective view of the story and is left to find the deeper message within it; “postmodernism prefers to dwell on the exterior image and avoids drawing conclusions or suggesting underlying meanings associated with the interior of objects and events” (Literary Articles). As Orwell describes the characters and presents some parts of the story, with outside knowledge we can see what he was really trying to do. Orwell demonstrates these connections when he writes “just at this moment Napoleon stood up - nine enormous dogs wearing brass−studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws. - Then he put