Animal Farm By George Orwell

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Throughout the text, “Animal Farm,” Orwell didactically warns that the utopic ideals of equality and freedom, can be tainted by the corruption of totalitarian governments. The pigs' abuse of power corrupts the animalism utopia, turning it into a dystopia, allegorically representing the abuse of power by totalitarian leaders leading to the fall of communism. The corruption of utopic ideals is seen and Napoleon announces that the animals have to now work on Sunday, although it is “strictly voluntary,” but if the animals do not work their “rations will be cut in half.” The manipulation of the animals is ironic as it leads them to believe that they are living the ideals of animalism but they are being oppressed. Orwell didactically warns against