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Why is animal farm considered so seminal?

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The writing is great and the whole Russian allegory thing is done to great effect, but what exactly makes this book a modern classic? Isn't it way too specific and bleak?
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oats pls
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>>8982651
It's easy to understand while being vague enough to make the reader feel like he accomplished something by understanding it. Also, some people revere anything written by Orwell as if it's some biblical prophecy. That's why.
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>>8982651
we are far enough in the future for people not to react too much to its heavy-handedness, which is also why it's used in schools as an intro to Stalin.
Anyone calling this the best of anything likely stopped reading literature after high school or college, basically this: >>8982728
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if you think this is bleak, you should read 1984, if your teacher hasn't already made you.

then read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and "Cancer Ward" to cheer yourself up again.
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Put into simple terms how earnest the russians tried to make utopia and udderly failed
moo
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>>8984504
>le soviet failed meme

dats sum delish propaganda u got there, my man
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>seminal
are you gay? Lol.
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A chicken in every pot;
An icepick in every Trot.
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