Animal Farm: Satire on Communist Russia Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is at the surface a simple novel of a group of animals living and working under the oppression of a tyrannical farmer who successfully overthrow him with a plan to live independently which backfires on them and ends them up under the even more dictatorial rule of the pigs. ... Through this essay, the social and political situation presented in George Orwell's Animal Farm will thoroughly be discussed and described. ... It is a fact that by February 20 of this year 50 per cent of the peasant farms throughout ...