George Orwell’s powerful allegory, Animal Farm, highlights the inequitable conditions that are found in corrupt totalitarian regimes such as in 20th Century Russia. It is a political story that displays the concepts of social justice and idealism that have gone wrong. Animal Farm extends beyond the outward appearance of a fairy tale, and exposes the treachery, corruption and dishonesties that exist in dictatorial societies.

Although Orwell’s originally titled novel, “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", combined with the use of animals as characters in the novel, may appeal to children, the content of Animal Farm goes beyond any magical or make-believe story. Orwell paints a vivid picture of a violent political revolution of farm animals against the farmer who owns all, works the animal population hard, feeds them little and sends their offspring to slaughter. Being an allegory, most of the characters and events have a parallel in Stalinist Russia: Mr Jones, the evil farmer, represents the Russian Czar; Napolean, the power hungry boar, portrays the corrupt Joesph Stalin and Snow

An ideal society involves everyone having the same equality. Such is not the case in Orwell’s Animal Farm where “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.” Animal Farm goes beyond a typical fairy story and exposes life in 20th Century totalitarian Russia, in which idealism is betrayed by power, corruption and lies.

ball, the idealistic pig, personifies Leon Trotsky, the clever partner of Stalin. However, Animal Farm is not simply a satire on the Russian Revolution. The novel is replete with messages and lessons regarding blind conformity and the misuse of power, that are not to be found in typical fairy stories.

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