Animal Farm

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Animal Farm

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en

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George Orwell's allegorical masterpiece follows farm animals who overthrow their human owner to create a utopia, only to see their ideals corrupted by a tyrannical pig leadership. A biting satire on totalitarianism, power dynamics, and the fragility of revolutionary justice.

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In George Orwell's *Animal Farm*, a group of animals, inspired by Old Major's dream of a society free from human oppression, overthrow their negligent owner, Mr. Jones. Establishing Animal Farm, they adopt the Seven Commandments, with the core principle that 'All animals are equal.' Initially, the farm thrives under the leadership of Napoleon and Snowball, two pigs who represent intellectual authority. Snowball, a visionary, helps construct a windmill to improve living conditions, while Napoleon consolidates power through a private army of dogs. Conflict erupts when Napoleon expels Snowball, blaming him for the destruction of the windmill during a storm. Napoleon then uses fear and propaganda, delivered by the pig Squealer, to rewrite history and justify his rule. As the farm struggles with food shortages and harsh winters, Napoleon forces the hardworking horses, Boxer and Clover, to work tirelessly while secretly selling their milk and eggs to humans. When Boxer suffers a heart attack, the pigs reveal they sold him to a glue factory rather than sending him to a vet, shattering the animals' trust. Over time, the pigs gradually adopt human vices, sleeping in beds, drinking alcohol, and walking on two legs. They systematically alter the Seven Commandments to suit their privilege, culminating in the reduction of the rules to a single phrase: 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' The narrative depicts the pigs' transformation into indistinguishable tyrants, dining with human farmers and wearing their clothes. The story concludes with the animals, exhausted and confused, unable to tell the pigs from the humans, illustrating Orwell's stark warning about how revolutionary ideals can be corrupted by power, leading to a cycle of tyranny that mirrors the very oppression the animals sought to escape.

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• Fiction
• Politics