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Animal Farm: Allegory of Stalinism

Most directly one would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism,
growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal
fable it gives the reader/viewer, some distance from the specific political
events. The use of the fable form helps one to examine the certain elements of
human nature which can produce a Stalin and enable him to seize power. Orwell,
does however, set his fable in familiar events of current history.

Old Major, a eminent pig on the Jones farm, is regarded as the wise superior by
the other animals. He has had a strange dream and calls the other animals
together to talk about their disastrous situation. Old major declares: "Let us
face it, our lives are miserable, laborious and short". He declares in Marxist
terms that Man is the problem: "Only get rid of the Man, and the produce of our
labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could be rich and free. What then
must we do? Why, work night and......

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