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Originally Posted by Ravager How about Animal Farm for one, an excellent book that uses metaphors and such to describe Communism? |
The fable setting (no joke, literally fabliaux) with barnyard animals had nothing to do with furries. It derived from the medieval "talking animals" fables, and before that, all the way back to Aesop. It was deliberately and ironically used to tell a brutal tale of Communist insinuation and subjugation.
The Reverend Dodgson, in showing the state of Alice's mind during sleep, delilberately mingled fairytale stories with contemporary political satire. Just because a novel uses speaking animals, doesn't mean it has anything to do with a small, modern group of people who wish they were anthropomorphic animals. To argue otherwise is anachronistic.