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From Shmoop Literature on Symbols and Allegory in Animal Farm

http://www.shmoop.com/literary-device/literature/george-orwell/animal-farm/symbols-imagery-allegory.html

So the "canonical interpretation" of Animal Farm is that it is a parable of the Russian Revolution of the twentieth century. Orwell created each animal to represent either a person or a class of people, and many of the events (e.g., the windmill stuff) parallel actual events in history. The following are generally accepted notions:

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