Animal Farm: Satire on Communist Russia Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is at the surface a simple novel of a group of animals living and working under the oppression of a tyrannical farmer who successfully overthrow him with a plan to live independently which backfires on them and ends them up under the even more dictatorial rule of the pigs. ... "Animal Farm," wrote Orwell, "was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole." Through this essay, the social and political situation presente...

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