Review of Arts and Humanities

A Multidimensional Approach to Animal Farm
Dr. Saed Jamil Said Shahwan

Abstract
Animal Farm, George Orwell‟s novella, which reads like a fable or a fairy tale and fits on the rack in children‟s literature section, can be considered as a very serious, satiric as well as allegorical work that invites several schools of criticism. This paper has placed Animal Farm at a crossroad of three critical approaches, namely psychoanalytic literary criticism, Marxist literary criticism and Reader-response literary criticism with an objective to investigate critically into the work and add some new insights into the realm of criticism of the novella.

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