- Orwell’s ideas about language in Politics and the English Language essay related to his allegorical novel Animal Farm

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Animal Farm is still nowadays considered to be a successful mixture of political satire and animal fable. It is considered one of Orwell's most lasting achievements. The book was completed in 1944 and remained unpublished for more than a year, although, later the short novel became a critical and popular triumph. In the subsequent years, Animal Farm has been interpreted from feminist, Marxist, political, and psychological perspectives, and it is perceived as an important and relevant book in the post-World War II literary canon. The short story is more purposely an analysis of all political revolutions, where the revolutionary ideals of justice, equality, and fraternity shatter in the event.

Animal farm book is also related to Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language” in a sense in which we can explore how language can control thought and behavior. The novel exposes how language can be used to control minds. Orwell tells the story from the animals’ point of view so that human beings are not characterized fully. He uses a simple language to reflect the naive perception of the “poor” animals. Although the reader is made to observe the way the animals are deceived, we are never allowed to infiltrate the minds of the characters. In all of his works, George Orwell made it a point to show how politicians used language. Squealer, one of the characters from the story, limits debate by complicating it, and he confuses and disorients, making claims that the pigs need the extra luxury they are taking in order to function properly, for example.