摘要：

乔治·奥威尔的《动物农场》是政治寓言小说，书中的人物、事物和场景象征了文本以外的形象。本文结合小说情结，分析《动物农场》故事中主要动物形象的特征，结合历史与政治因素，探索动物形象背后的隐喻意义，挖掘与历史政治的关联以及其现实意义。

关键词：动物形象 隐喻 政治意义 现实启示

Abstract：

George Orwell’ s political fable novel Animal Farm has features of metaphorical implications. The characters, objects and scenes in this story symbolize the images of other things out of the book. Through the analysis of the features of main animal images in Animal Farm, combining the novel and associating with politics and history elements, this thesis tries to explore in-depth metaphorical meaning behind the images of the animals, and digs the association with politics and history as well as its practical significance.

Key words:  animal images  metaphor   political meaning   realistic inspiration