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There are much better books to introduce allegory, metaphor, and satire in school than Animal Farm.
Introducing satire? Huckleberry Finn, Gulliver's Travels, Any of Ben Franklin's stuff (Rules by which..., Remarks Concerning the Savages), A Modest Proposal, or on the more challenging side, It Can't Happen Here, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or of course, 1984. Allegory/Metaphor? The Chocolate War, The Crucible, Narnia, Metamorphosis, the younger choices of The Little Prince and The Giving Tree, my personal choice of depicting leadership and power Lord of the Flies, and Gulliver's Travels again. I find that Animal Farm is an overly simplistic choice, which to me goes against the nature of satire and allegory which is at its best when it's more than simply "this is what this thing is like" and more nuanced, representing something that is better conveyed through allegory.
I think Animal Farm is worse at portraying the type of dictatorship it wants to portray than an actual class on the Russian Revolution would be. As opposed to Lord of the Flies or Huckleberry Finn, which uses narrative to portray the more nebulous topics/events of how power intertwines with human nature and how friendship between peoples can overcome biases and immoral lessons, respectively.
I would love to hear reasoning if anyone disagrees and thinks Animal Farm is a great choice to introduce these device.
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Introducing satire? Huckleberry Finn, Gulliver's Travels, Any of Ben Franklin's stuff (Rules by which..., Remarks Concerning the Savages), A Modest Proposal, or on the more challenging side, It Can't Happen Here, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or of course, 1984. Allegory/Metaphor? The Chocolate War, The Crucible, Narnia, Metamorphosis, the younger choices of The Little Prince and The Giving Tree, my personal choice of depicting leadership and power Lord of the Flies, and Gulliver's Travels again. I find that Animal Farm is an overly simplistic choice, which to me goes against the nature of satire and allegory which is at its best when it's more than simply "this is what this thing is like" and more nuanced, representing something that is better conveyed through allegory.
I think Animal Farm is worse at portraying the type of dictatorship it wants to portray than an actual class on the Russian Revolution would be. As opposed to Lord of the Flies or Huckleberry Finn, which uses narrative to portray the more nebulous topics/events of how power intertwines with human nature and how friendship between peoples can overcome biases and immoral lessons, respectively.
I would love to hear reasoning if anyone disagrees and thinks Animal Farm is a great choice to introduce these device.
#entertainment
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