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takes place in his home country of England. This is important for several
reasons. First, it would make his audience feel at home with the image of a tranquil, idyllic
little farm in the English countryside. This would become a stark contrast to the dictatorial
rule of the end of the novel. Secondly, this sets up the neighboring farms to represent other
nations England interacted with during the Second World War, specifically Germany and the United
States. Asattempts to make a deal with Mr. Frederick, they have a falling out, and he later
connects himself with Mr. Pilkington, who represents the Allied forces. This parallels the way
Stalin and Hitler disagreed and Stalin determined to help America and Great Britain.
In setting Animal Farm in England,not only establishes the farms
as an allegorical representation of nationhood, he aims to convince his readership that may be
living in England, as if to say, Communism is dangerous, and it could just as easily happen
here as there. Communism is an ideology that is not inherently Russian, and Orwell was worried
to see its influence spread as the twentieth century progressed.
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