Animal Farm George Orwell

“Animal Farm” is a classic example of Utopian and Dystopian fiction. From the perspective of a group of animal, it is an allegorical novel that deals with the Russian revolution through the animals in the manor farm who protests against their human masters’ tyranny. Unfortunately, when they feel like they have attained freedom, they become the victims of a power-hungry pig, “Napoleon”. He becomes a totalitarian dictator and rephrases the ideology of Animalism from ‘All are Equal’ to ‘All Animals Are Equal / But Some Are More Equal Than Others’ oppression.

The basic theme of “Animal Farm” has to do with the capacity for ordinary individuals to continue to believe in a revolution that has been utterly betrayed. “Orwell” attempts to reveal how those in power -“Napoleon” and his fellow pigs pervert the democratic promise of the revolution. The emotional force of the novel comes from the author’s depictions of those ordinary animals who unthinkingly give themselves in good faith to working for the very system by which they are ruthlessly exploited. A case in point is “Boxer”, one of two cart horses among the pigs’ “most faithful disciples”.

“Orwell” chose a difficult genre the fable, often equated with children’s literature to offer a complex critique of one of the most problematic regimes in modern history. He succeeds by capturing both realistically and amusingly the characteristics of many of the animals and by convincing the reader that these characteristics lend themselves, at least

metaphorically, to understanding human life in the totalitarian context.