


The setting of Animal Farm is a dystopia, which is an imagined world that is far worse than our own, as opposed to a utopia, which is an ideal place or state.The horse Boxer stands in for the proletariat, or working class. Napoleon stands for Stalin, while the dogs are his secret police. Old Major stands for either Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin, and the pig named Snowball represents the intellectual revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Manor Farm is allegorical of Russia, and the farmer Mr. The main action of Animal Farm stands for the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the early years of the Soviet Union. Animal Farm is an allegory, which is a story in which concrete and specific characters and situations stand for other characters and situations so as to make a point about them.The three most important aspects of Animal Farm:

Major Symbols: Cold War the barn the windmill Major Thematic Topics: animalism mob rule virtue religion as a drug distortion of reality death false allegiance political corruption Main Characters : Old Major Snowball Napoleon Squealer Boxer Mollie Benjamin Moses Jones Frederick Pilkington A power-hungry pig, Napoleon, becomes a totalitarian dictator who leads the Animal Farm into " All Animals Are Equal / But Some Are More Equal Than Others" oppression. Jones' Manor Farm embrace Animalism and stage a revolution to achieve an idealistic state of justice and progress. Inspired to rebel by Major, an old boar, animals on Mr. Animal Farm is George Orwell's satire on equality, where all barnyard animals live free from their human masters' tyranny.
