HTRLLAP Chapter 19

          Geography is very important in George Orwell's Animal Farm. The farm itself is of course geography, it's size shows how even a vast area can be taken over by just one charismatic dictator, Napoleon the pig. The windmill is geography, it symbolizes the "prosperity" of Animal Farm, by showing they had the resources to built it, when in reality slave labor and existing materials were used to construct it. The farmhouse in which the pigs begin to live in once they assume more control is another method of using setting to progress the plot. The farmhouse is where the dictatorial farmer Jones lived, and when the pigs move in, it shows their final step in becoming exactly what they once despised: humans. Lastly, the barn on the farm is the last important part of geography in the novel. The barn is the last untouched, uncorrupted part of the farm. It's the only pure, healthy, and operational part of the farm that remains after the pigs take over.