The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig…

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

George Orwell

Animal Farm · 1945

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Topic

Russian Revolution Revolution Totalitarianism Communism Political hypocrisy

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

Genre

Allegory Dystopian fiction

Medium

Novel

Time

1945

Person

George Orwell

Provenance

Citation

Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Secker and Warburg, 1945, ch. 10.

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