‘Animal Farm’ was written by George Orwell, a British author, and published in 1945. It is an allegory of the Russian Revolution in 1917 which describes the events of the time in World War two for Russia but replaced with animals on a farm that get rid of the farmer. They then take over the farm and run it by themselves.
In this book, Orwell has based it on the act of communism. His message to anyone that reads it is that communism is a very bad idea. This is because in his book the leaders take advantage of the people in the state that they’re in and it ends up worse than it had begun without communism.
Communism was first discovered in the Russian Revolution where the Bolshevik party who were communist took over. There was a civil war due to this and this was how the USSR was created and took over. Vladimir Lenin had advised them to rebel and when he died, Joseph Stalin came to power and took over Russia. Then there is chaos.
The author has not given away who he thinks could have been the people were good. He is only representing the cause of what the people did to make the place a bad place. He is showing this in the form of animals to make it less dramatic and more understandable.
George Orwell had also written ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, ‘Homage to Catalonia’ and ‘Down and Out in Paris and London.’ He was born in 1903 and died in 1950.
I think that this book is a very accurate point of view of the Russian Revolution and leading on to the Second World War. The author has aimed it at children or teenagers but I disagree that this is the correct age group for this novel. This is because it is revolved around a very violent time and shouldn’t be called a fairy tale because it has a very dark moral.
Overall I think that this book is a very recommendable book. Even though it was published over fifty years ago it is still as much of a pleasure to read it and the moral is still not-forgotten today.
