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Animal Farm is a straightforward obviously composed story of animals ascending to assume command over their own predetermination

and run the ranch they work for, accommodating each other and residing at a focal regulation of rules, It's a moral story for not simply the Soviet
Union and its slight guileful change from socialism's high beliefs of equity into extremist, controlled by a solitary despot and boss proselytizer,
yet in addition for the difficulties of self-administration and the dangers of government individuals face from one side of the planet to the other.
To understand the nature of animal farm, let’s first look at Goerge Orwell, the author. Orwell is the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair, born June
25th 1903to British parents in India. He served with the imperial Indian police in Burma, he fought in the Spanish civil war and was a World War
II correspondent of the BBC. His first-hand experiences of class struggles and inequalities of everyday life in England informed the writing of
animal farm.
Now the structure of animal farm parallels the Russian revolution. It’s satire, using animals and their names and actions as embellished
heightened version of reality. At the very beginning, old major, an idealistic boar, introduces ideas he’s envisioned about animal rebellion and
self-rule teaching the animals the song beast of England helping to establish a sense of camaraderie. The animal's rebel against their drunken
neglectful farmer Mr. Jones and take over his farm, during the battle the animals defend their farm from humans for the first time. Pigs snowball
and napoleon, the main characters of animal farm for leadership. Napoleon ends up expelling snowball using a combination of propaganda
expertly delivered by squealer his mouthpiece poorly educating the animals slowly eroding snowball's legacy turning from real brave hero to
imaginary scapegoat villain. Napoleon imposes his will on the other animals maki8ng them work harder and harder, for less and less while he
and his close circle of pigs live more and more extravagantly and increasingly detached from the community. He orders the construction of a
windmill Wich is snowball’s idea he had once fiercely opposed. Napoleon oversees collusion with humans. The animals sworn enemies for
supplies. The animals defend their farm against the farmer Frederick and his attack but their windmill is destroyed at the process. Boxer, the
noble idealist workhorse, so responsible for much of the farms task success is sent away to slaughter and the animals lied to about what
happened to him. by the end of animal farm, time has passed, and the original guiding document the animals lived by has been modified to a
single commandment. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. Pigs walk on two legs and are the only animals
educated.
Animal farm ending is a party scene, the other animals of the farm observed the outside where pigs and humans gather together to tossed
their exploitation of the other working creatures on the farm. The animals looking in through the windows can no longer tell humans apart from
pigs. Animal farm is rife with important symbols. The animal's name is representative of their actions or power positions. Things like milk and
apples and windmill and even old major skull represent respectively riches and material wealth. Labor and the history of the Soviet Union.
Vlademir Lenin's body was put on display after his death, so too old major’s skull canonized as the founding idealist leader of revolution. Mr.
Jones rifle is a symbolic trophy representing the animal's victory over their former masters the humans. There are number of important themes in
animal farm and they all have political connections.
First, there’s corruption we see how the inches napoleon and his inner circle take when it comes to control and power end up becoming miles
leading the animals far astray from their original ideas of communist utopia.
Then there’s exploitation throughout animal farm we how the working class is exploited by ruling elites to provide for their aristocratic needs.
The hard-working lower class deserve the deceptive upper ones. In fact, deception is its own them, and we see how napoleon and squealer bend
history to better suit their needs suppressing education while fear-mongering creates a culture of deception that allows for the rise of a dictator.
On the other hand, the theme of idealism is an important one too especially at the beginning. Dreams of equality and legends of animal bravery
set the stage for revolution underscored by good intentions.
Lastly there’s apathy, an important theme for understanding how dictatorship takes place without action to back it up education is essentially
useless. We especially see in Benjamin the donkey, whose cynical attitude and insistence that nothing ever changes, becomes a self-fulfilling
prophecy of doom. A complacent population is ripe for the picking by controlling dictators, bent on power and control. Animal farm remains a
legendary book that achieve many purposes. It’s a study of the Soviet Union and the Russian revolution, and an allegory for self-rule and how
governments are structured. On top of it all, it’s a cautionary tale for the perils of power itself.

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