Orwell deliberately mocks and criticizes the Russian leadership under Lenin using Animals in the novel.

For, he too has taken part in the war which unfortunately incapacitated him.Īnimal Farm depicts the agony of Orwell as a Socialist as he sees the way Socialism has been deformed by Stalin. Moreover, he has identified the Spanish Civil War of 1936 as some kind of defining moment in his career. If one observes his works clearly it could be clearly seen how he has dealt with socialism as something more than an emotion. He has clearly portrayed his dissatisfaction over the dictators and megalomaniacs through his writings. George Orwell was a committed socialist, who expressed his strong views through his intellectual engagements.

Climax: The Climax of the novel appears in Chapter V, where Napoleon runs Snowball off the farm, to secure power.

Genre: Political satire AllegoryPoint-of-View: Third-person through an anonymous writer.

Published: First published in England on 17 August 1945 and in the U.S in 1946.

When/where written: Orwell started writing the novel in 1944.

Title: Animal Farm, though initially known as Animal Farm: A Fairy Story.He becomes a totalitarian dictator and rephrases the ideology of Animalism from “All are Equal” to “All Animals Are Equal / But Some Are More Equal Than Others” oppression. Unfortunately, when they feel like they have attained freedom, they become the victims of a power-hungry pig, Napoleon. It is an allegorical novel that deals with the Russian revolution through the animals in the manor farm who protests against their human masters’ tyranny.

Animal farm novel