INGLESE ANIMAL FARM (G.

ORWELL) RAPPORTO UOMO-NATURA E INTELLETTUALI E POTERE

The author who experienced totalitarianism was George Orwell, he speaks about this theme in his works,

Animal Farm and 1984.Animal Farm is a political fable describing how the animal of a farm rebel against

their cruel master .The book expresses Orwell’s disillusionment with totalitarianism in the form of an

animal fable. It is a dystopian novel influenced by Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.It is set on a farm where a group

of oppressed animals, led by Napoleon, overcome their cruel master and set up a revolutionary

government. As timepasses, Napoleon’s leadership becomes a dictatorial regime. All the Seven

Commandments are abandoned and only one remains: ‘all animals are equal but some animals are more

equal than others’. We have got a sad conclusion because at the end of the story the other animals see pigs

and man drinking toghether to celebrate their new found harmony. The sad conclusion: revolution is

doomed to fail and result in a new form of oppression when the workers/animals lack their social

consciousness. Animal Farm is not only a satire on the Soviet Union, but a satire on dictatorship in general,

as the name ‘Napoleon’ shows.Animal Farm shows how the initial idealism of the revolution gradually

decayed into inequality, hierarchy and finally dictatorship. Animal Farm does not attack the original ideals

of the Revolution but the ways in which they were betrayed. Gradually, the privileges and abuses of the old

regime are restored in a systematic, tyrannical form: this is what Orwell means by totalitarianism. The

animal are a metaphor for workers in modern society, they are exploited.