George Orwell is truly a fantastic writer. Although the book and the reading wasn't all the most enjoyable, I can appreciate what Orwell created and how magnificent it is as a piece of literature. So for those of you who haven't read Animal Farm, seen the movie, or remember the exact details of the Russian Revolution from History Class, I will sum up in the end what ended up happening on the "Animal" Farm.
After some chaos, and minor setbacks in the farm from outside forces, the farm seems to be functioning the same for years and years. The only change over the course of time is that as the farm ages and time passes by, the animals on the farm evolve more and more into people. Not just personifying the animals by allowing them to talk and operate their own farm, but the animals actually began to look like human beings. Now instead of walking around on all four legs the animals are walking more upright. Thats not the only thing that highlights this change from animal to human, but the fact that they now wear clothing was quite the obvious hint at this evolution of the animals.
By turning the animals back into people I felt like Orwell was trying to show that these animals are no better than the human that was in power beforehand. It's the same cycle that keeps happening and happening almost like the Chinese Dynastic Cycle how it is on repeat.
Orwell also managed to insert some really satirical irony in the end of the book where a message was inscribed on the side of the barn. The message read as follows, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." These very contradictory statement is the very one that the Russian government abided by for the years to follow. By publishing this novella full of his political opinions, Orwell is trying to show in a simplistic way just how corrupt Russia is.
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