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Animal Farm

Animal Farm
by George Orwell

George Orwell was born in 1903. As a novelist, George Orwell, certainly, is a thinker, a serious sociological thinker, who views and analyses social forces from his own angel and propagates powerfully his own concepts and notions about them. Animal Farm is his masterpiece. This novel was written in 1945. It is his most popular work. It is supposed to be his best literary product. This is a political allegory, set in the pattern of a fable, with a Swiftian satiric dimension. Totally disillusioned about communism, after his bitter experience as a fighter in the Spanish War, Orwell satirizes here the revolution, meaning the Russian Revolution, that has turned authoritarian. In the highly provocative theme of the work, Orwell presents through the fable of the firm themselves, that the revolutionary slogan's absolutism, but his novel has a more universal application. The novel is a political allegory, rather a satirical fable, that contains Orwell's sharp mockery on the degeneration of communist ideals. The novelist's objective is to expose the failure of the revolutionary idealism of communism, so much glorified in Soviet Russia under Stalin. Orwell's characters here are animals, and this has given a Swiftian dimension to his satire, written in a quite incisive, but simple style.  

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