Animal Farm

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Animal Farm, By George Orwell
George Orwell's Novella “Animal Farm” tells us, the surface tale of an animal rebellion, a wish to find their utopia and to live as one peacefully, however in reality “Animal Farm” is a story surrounded by deceit, deception, uneducated masses and the eventual down fall of what was hoped to be the epitomize of happiness for the down trodden workers of Manor Farm. Their idealism was betrayed and replaced by a web of lies to keep the down trodden down and pigs in power.

Throughout the novel there is a consistent dark undertone to the story, often focused around the working animals and their trampled hopes and dreams for the original “Animal Farm” this mainly occurs at the start of the novel where the idea of “Animal Farm” is first brought to light. The animals put all the beliefs and ideas towards the construction of their utopia in which all animals are equal, and the ever impending threat of humans, their most hated enemy, would be erased. “This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep- and all of them living in a comfort and dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining..” Their idealism is quickly betrayed and the novels fleeting tone of inspiration, hope and excitement, is quickly replaced with a dark and disturbing tale of deception and deceit, where no longer every animal is equal, but rather, some animals are more equal then others.

Animal Farm looks at the ideals of communism and how little more than a person working simply to their own agenda can destroy, what could have been, “Animal Farm” The propaganda and brainwashing of the animals throughout the novel is done so subtly that it's not until you put down the book, do you realize the extent to which they had been betrayed by the pigs in power. Many of the animals had lived through the rebellion and upon reflection of the poor conditions Animal Farm was in, not an animal coul...