Answer:
D). He wanted to reach a wider audience by addressing the themes of oppression, suffering, and injustice without explicitly referring to current events.
Step-by-step explanation:
Orwell writes 'Animal Farm' as a fable and employs several literary devices like allegory and satire to present the commentary on communism and display the rise of corruption, power abuse, and violence during the Russian revolution to the wider audience. The animal characters and exaggerated descriptions using irony, humor, etc. help him in highlighting and communicating the themes of suffering, oppression, and inequity to the readers and aware them about the negative aspect of the revolution. Thus, option D is the correct answer.