Submitted by georgew123 on September 3, 2007

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Animal Farm

Stephen Sedley, in a 1984 article in Inside the Myth: Orwell, Views from the Left attacks George

Orwell's Animal Farm as both politically and artistically lacking. Sedley points to the fact that his

thirteen-year-old daughter was bored stiff by the novel because she, like most students today, was too new to

political ideas to have any frame of reference for the story (28). In this, Sedley has a point: in the early 1980s,

many high school students were given Animal Farm to read for the first time, along with the simple (indeed,

simplistic) advice that this novel was an allegory of the Russian Revolution and the...

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