The most important theme of this book is the hypocrisy of communism. George Orwell opposes strongly against communism. He does not believe in a communist society at all. In the novel the leader of the society ends up adopting many of the ethics of Mr. Jones. The animals work while the pigs and dogs collect from their labour, this is what they were trying to get away from in the beginning. The society which was supposed to create equality amongst the animals, a classless society, turned into one where as the last commandment of the book stated that “ ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS (George Orwell pg. 90).” Communism is hence unfailingly hypocritical. Greed and jealousy will always drive humans to control other human beings for their own profit, even in a system where everyone is supposed to be equal and where their exist no social class. In the book the pigs lived in the farmhouse, they took most of the food for themselves, and they did the least amount of labour on the farm. This was taking place while most of the other animals were starving and struggling with farm work. As I said before, I would love to believe in a society where everyone is equal and where everyone works for the betterment of society, but humans are greedy. Greed has been programmed into us thousands of year ago, it is human nature. That is why such a society would never work, and that is why in the end it is hypocritical of its own principals.

While reading Animal Farm I kept expecting the animals to revolt against the pigs and dogs. Over the course of the novel the pigs took absolute power over the farm. It was at the end of the novel that the animals realised completely that they were living in an oppressive society run by the pigs and dogs. It was at the end of the book that the animals could not tell the difference between pigs and men. It was then that they realised they were no longer living in their free and happy society. It was no longer the society they had hoped for after the expulsion of Mr. Jones. But the book did not end in another revolution. And I wondered why. One of the strangest things about the book is its cover page, I usually look at it to find a quote the author liked or a dedication, I found the title and underneath it said, “A Fairy Story,” don’t fairy tales usually have happy endings? But of course this isn’t your average fairy tale. One thing I noticed about the novel is when it was written, in 1945. It was during this time that socialist and communist ideas were rampant in Europe. One of the major communist powers at this time was the U.S.S.R.. The novel bares a striking resemblance to the story of revolution and communism in Russia, staring with the overthrow of the Tsar and in 1945 ending in the very oppressive and aggressive regime under Stalin. Many of the attributes of Stalin’s leadership of Russia are the same as Napoleon’s leadership of Animal Farm. They both induced famine in their people, they both slaughtered much of the population, and they both murdered much of their opposition. Both regimes were corrupt. I belie

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