How Are Literary Devices Used In Animal Farm

Throughout the novel Animal Farm, an assortment of changes were made and many things were kept unknown until further reading. No one wanted to be on any side in the two books or during the Russian Tsar. Everyone from then on, was against the leader that had been chosen. “Lenin criticized Trotsky , accusing him of harassing the unions and abandoning his support for the Proletariat. Joseph Stalin , took advantage, siding with Lenin to gain the favor.” ( “Leon Trotsky Biography”, n.d) . Inside the novel it states “ They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws. In a moment he was out of the door and they were after him.” (Orwell,1949, page 53.). They both killed the people who weren’t on their side and took advantage of the amendments that the people had rightfully earned through battle. “Trotsky had …show more content…
There were several statements used as a literary devices. “Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.” (“Literary Devices”, n.d)This correlates to the quote, “The building of the windmill, takes two years.” (Orwell,1949, page 48). They used the windmill as the symbol and to show how the animals were once passionate about and how they could work together, to them being against each other and on different sides.. Another literary device is a fable which is defined as,“...a literary device which can be defined as a concise and brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at the end.”(“Literary Devices”, n.d) Orwell expresses this by writing, “Word had gone around during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals.” (Orwell, 1949, page 3). This shows the fable aspect of the novel as animals couldn’t talk, communicate, or dream in real