Animal Farm Controversy

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George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, was born June 25, 1903, Bengal, India. George’s most recognised publications being the controversial Animal Farm and the utopian Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was born into the class of Sahibs, his father being a minor British Official. He was relocated to England as a young boy where he attended a boarding school in Sussex. At school he was a reserved boy, as he was intellectually brilliant but quite eccentric. He won a scholarship to Eton. It was here that he wrote his first piece of published writing, ‘Down and Out in Paris and London.’

In 1922 he and went to Burma instead of pursuing a further university education. He obtained the role of an assistant district superintendent. During this period

The novel parallel of these figures are the harsh leaders Napoleon and Snowball. The Manor farm and the leaders are representative of the soviet union and the destruction that they inflicted upon the working class and the power imbalances that were created.

Animal Farm was a very controversial novel of its time and when facing publication had many issues in its way. It was deemed controversial as although it was written about the Russian revolution it was written during WWII a period of time where communism was at large and was extremely powerful. Great Britain, USA and the Soviet Union were strongly allied as Orwell's novel depicts the government in a extremely negative light, it was not thought to be a wise decision to publish the work as it may lead to disastrous consequences for the British in terms of the war. Orwell struggled to find a publisher and was rejected more than four times and they did not believe it to be the right time to release such a critical representation of an important political

The text ‘Animal Farm’ reveals the idea and concept of power. It puts forward the concept that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is avidly and eloquently proved in the contents of Orwell’s novel. ‘Animal Farm’ is a fable of simple language but huge symbolic value, and as Orwell himself explained: "it is the history of a revolution that went wrong” the theory behind the revolution is brilliant but just as any thing, doesn't work as well in when put into practice. The novel can be viewed as proof of the faults of communism or as a fairy tale. However, any way you look you can see how Orwell has aimed to prove though his work, that human nature and diversity prevent people from being happy whilst being equal, or from being equally as happy as each other. As proved in the altered commandment ‘ All animals are equal but some are more equal then