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  • Essay / Allegory in Animal Farm - 619

    George Orwell's Animal Farm serves as a satirical account of the Russian Revolution through the creativity of a fable. The classic literary work offers observations on the human propensity to reestablish class structures despite a society's original stance in favor of complete equality. Animal Farm symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under communist rule; however, it also represents any human society with the internal structure of a nation with a government. Through Orwell's use of characterization and irony, he creates an allegory criticizing communism and illustrating how power fuels human immorality, ultimately furthering the author's goal of exposing corruption socialist ideals in the Soviet Union. Animal Farm is a story told by common animals as a whole. Gullible, loyal and hardworking, these animals give Orwell the opportunity to sketch how situations of oppression arise not only from the motivations and tactics of the oppressors, but also from the naivety of the oppressed. Leaders of this majority include Napoleon the Pig representing Joseph Stalin and Snowb...