Animal Farm: A Dystopian Society

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" this line embodies the story of George Orwell's Animal Farm. It is a political satire of Russia during the reign of the Bolshevik Party under Stalin. Depicted in the novel are the enduring and tireless workhorses, Boxer and Clover. The old, ill-tempered donkey, Benjamin. The fierce- looking boar, Napoleon and the quicker speaking Snowball. When the old prize winning hog talks about a …

…this and shows it well, as the pigs become the same as the previous dictator. Orwell's negative views are justified and history is the proof. In Bolshevik Russia, after the rebellion against the Czars, new leaders claimed to be socialists but eventually turned to their own interests. Orwell has a realist, not a pessimist. He was merely writing about what he saw. Therefore his views fair, because that was the climate during that time period.