What Is The Purpose Of Animal Farm By George Orwell

It may be tough to tell by the tittle, but this novel takes place solely on an animal farm. The books characters are mostly made up of animals that all realize their lives are miserable. They are used like slaves, have short lives and are only fed enough to stay alive so that they can later be killed for the sake of their drunker farmer, Mr. Jones. During a meeting of all the animals, led by Old Major, the eldest pig, he shares his dream of a utopian farm run by animals where humans have no power to oppress them. This is when you first start seeing the parallel to communism that Orwell is trying to make. Using this story and these characters was a very indirect way for him to shine a light on what was going on in the world politically and to teach everyone a lesson about the way communism works.

The first was Old Major, who inspired the whole rebellion with his socialist dream, much like Lenin did in Russia. He dies just three days after sharing his ideas and teaching the farm the song “Beasts of England”. After his death, power is passed down to two of the other pigs, Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon represents Stahlin because he doesn’t contribute much to the ideal or practice of everyone working together to eliminate human power, but instead he uses his secret army of dogs to instill fear into the rest of the animals to abide by his ruling. Napoleons counter part was Snowball, who was meant to mirror Leon Trotsky, because he was a kinder, more progressive thinking pig that came up with ideas that truly would help the farm thrive. He was not perfect because he did still think that the pigs were a superior bread of animal than all the rest, but had he not been run out by Napoleon, the animals would have been much happier under his