What is the significance of animal representation of human behavior of experience in literature such as Franz Kafka's books and the Animal Farm?is...

The animal figurations in Kafka and Orwell are quite different in terms of the purpose behind this allegorization. In fact, it is more an exploitation of bestial allegory in Animal Farm, where animals are an allegorical detour for avoiding any direct involvement with the political issue at hand. It speaks volumes of animal courage and their right to resist. There is corruption and betrayal even in their world, but there is also class-struggle, revolt, emancipation and heroic sacrifice in it. Orwell also implies a paradox of heroism that a novel like The Red Badge of Courage also underscores, that courage/heroism, ironically enough, a matter more of passion and animal-like instinct rather than human rationality.

In Kafka, however, the physicality of the metamorphosis is important. His animal is not man represented as animal but man turned into, or better still reduced to a state of radical unreason. In stories like Metamorphosis, there is a vision of an absurd world where signification is proliferated out of existence and the radical replacement of rationality of man with the instinctive irrational animal self is a post-Darwinian insight into an absurd link between the man and the world.