Animal Farm is a satirical piece of literature through which George Orwell indirectly harasses the

idea of Russian Communism, the events leading to the Russian Revolution, the movement
itself, and the totalitarian regime manifested at the end of the novel. George Orwell uses satire
to show the political ideology and the misuse of power in communistic society. Orwell uses
humorous satire by making the setting on a farm and the taking the characters as animals.
Orwell, then, shows the perversion of political ideals and the corruption of power which occur in
human societies.

In Orwell's novella, a flarm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming
idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality.
This sets the stage for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned. A razor-edged fairy tale
for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just
as terrible.

When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is
devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner,
the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and
message still ferociously fresh.