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GCSE English Literature · key term
A narrative whose characters, settings and events also represent political figures, systems or ideas.
Used by Edexcel and OCR
Paper 1
A story in which characters and events also represent people, events or ideas outside the story. In Animal Farm, the struggle between Napoleon and Snowball parallels Stalin’s struggle against Trotsky.
A narrative in which characters and events also represent historical people, events or wider ideas.
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Paper 1
A story whose characters and events also represent political figures, groups or developments.
Revise: Education and ignoranceAnimal Farm, published in 1945, is a political allegory drawing on the Russian Revolution and the development of Soviet dictatorship. Education matters to that allegory because a ruling minority can present itself as the only group qualified to understand and direct society.
