Animal Farm Essay

Animal Farm
By George Orwell


Many authors write about topics that they know and about historical events that are going on while they write their story. In the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, this is definitely true. Orwell modeled many of his characters after Russian leaders. He depicts the troubles of Russia in a book about farm animals. Animal Farm draws parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917.
The story begins with a prize winning boar named Old Major who gathers all of the farm animals around to tell them of a dream that he had. He tells them about a society of only farm animals who would run everything without humans. The farm animals like this idea and make a song called “Beasts of England” about their new freedom. Three days after announcing his dream, Old Major dies. Two younger pigs; Snowball and Napoleon, put Old Major’s ideas into a philosophy and call it Animalism. The animals chase Farmer Jones off of t...