Animal Farm Notes

Allegory (cont’d)Yet there is no reason thatallegory must be limited totwo levels. It is possible toargue that Animal Farmalso has a third and moregeneral level of meaning. Forinstance, the pigs need notonly represent specifictyrannical soviet leaders.They could also be symbolsfor tyranny more broadly:their qualities are thereforenot simply the historicalcharacteristics of a set ofactual men but are thequalities of all leaders whorely on repression andmanipulation.Squealer, Snowball, & Napoleon