Examples Of Allegory In Animal Farm By George Orwell

The book Animal Farm by George Orwell is a allegory. This allegory is symbolizing George Orwell’s perceptions on the Cold War and communism. He is qualified to present his opinion on these views because he fought in the spanish civil war, witnessing Stalin's murderous political apparatchiks. He shows this in Animal Farm in a very peculiar yet simplistic way. As the title suggests, on a farm with animals. In this book the animals all live on manor farm, where they are mistreated a great deal. Then one night, an old boar “Major” had a dream. And this dream was so important where he had to wake the whole barn up that very hour to share it with them. This dream was that one day, the animals would be free. They would start a revolution against the humans and take over the farm. 3 days later major would die, lighting a fire to the Manor farm revolution. Two themes that would refer to

These themes are shown throughout the book in dialogue and the commandments. Animal shows that promises aren’t always kept. The book shows this on page 43 when the 10th commandment read, “all animals are equal.” But then on page 133 the commandment reads, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” This shows that promises aren’t always kept because in the very beginning of the book and the revolution the animals were promised that the 10 commandment were the foundation of animal farm and would not change. Later in the story more and more commandments were changed until finally the 10th and most important commandment was taken from the animals. When the animals drove the humans away