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Originally posted by Bfair
An editor at eUmpire is fond of recalling Orwelle's "Animal Farm" and making analogies. It seems appropriate when he makes analogies, and inappropriate when others do. Steve
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I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Peter Osborne is not
an editor at eUmpire. He's not even
the editor. I am the sole editor, and the references to Orwell on this Board came primarily from Osborne, not from me. I do agree with your analysis of those comments; however, I doubt you still believe them appropriate now that you know you applied them to the "wrong" person.
Since Peter's posts have been deleted, a search for "Orwell" turned up only four hits: two by you, claiming incorrectly that I reference Orwell; and two by MB.
It will come as a great surprise to most of the major critics of literature that
Animal Farm is simplistic. Foreboding? yes; pessimistic? yes; right-wing? yes; terrifying, even? yes. Simplistic? never.
As J.R. Hammond wrote:
[Animal Farm is]one of those parables which embody permanent truths: a myth that will long outlast the particular historical events which form its background. Now that it is possible to view the work in context, freed of the emotional circumstances surrounding its publication, we can recognize it for what it is: a dystopia [an antiutopia, an imaginary picture of the worst possible world], a satirical commentary upon human societies which vividly recalls SwiftÂ’s... (A George Orwell Companion, 1982)