Essay | Animal Farm: Allusions to Communism

George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm, is a compelling story of power and its corruption. The pigs have the authority of leadership; yet they abuse that privilege and mistreat other animals. The story is such a potent beast affable, reflecting upon human society through powerful personification. Kim II Sung of North Korea and the United States's involvement in Kosovo are examples of how political leaders infract or change laws for their own benefits

There are basically three types of citizens in Animal Farm. Napoleon, Snowball and Squealer are the aristocrats in this society; the less important pigs represents the middle class while everybody else are the poor, unintelligence lower class. Like the Tsar in the Russian revolution, Napoleon and Snowball conspicuously extracts the Farm's better products for themselves, though Snowball contributes ideas for the common good. They claim property of the cow's milk, reasoning that they need that for all the...
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