Animal Comparisons

Orwell’s fondness for animal comparisons, metaphors, and similes is visible throughout his work, most obviously in Animal Farm but also in his letters, essays, and reviews. To a certain extent these are just figures of speech. The combined force of them, though, suggests that Orwell was predisposed to think in terms of animalistic equivalence and comparability. Here are some noticeable examples.

pigsty (CW, 11, p. 204)