

All the commandments set at the beginning are altered and the animals manipulated. Napoleon ultimately wins, but fed with greed and corruption, he leads the farm in a totalitarian way. Once the farm has been taken, they renamed it “Animal Farm.” There is a fight over power between two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball. Jones, the drunk farmer, so they gathered together and set up a revolution. These animals were tired of being enslaved by Mr. George Orwell’s fairy story is darker than it seems.Īnimal Farm tells a story from the animals’ perspective of the “Manor Farm”. Satirizing such negative events with a child’s type of story only emphasizes his undeniable contempt. Animal Farm was published in 1944 with the interesting subtitle – “A Fairy Story.” Orwell wanted to expose the oppression caused by Russia’s totalitarian government in the form of an allegory a fairy tale. In 1917 Russia suffered two revolutions: The first one overthrew the monarchy established by Tsar and the second led to the creation of USSR.

Most of Orwell’s writing expresses physical, economic, and political oppression as we will see – he hated totalitarianism. He joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, but years later resigned and decided to become the writer we know, under the name of George Orwell. If you love art and books like me, this is the blog for you!Įric Blair was born on 1903 in eastern India and then moved to England, where he got his education. In my blog I intend to discuss writing styles, starting with Animal Farm, by George Orwell. This is all due to the creativeness and persuasion of compelling writing. Readers know what I’m talking about when I say that books are something magical, capable of drawing us to the most amazing worlds and connecting us to the characters as if they were real. Rowling – my mom wanted to pass on the fandom and succeeded! The first book I committed myself to read at the end of 1 st grade was Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Reading and writing, similarly to other forms of art, have been a part of my life since I can remember. My name is Mariana and I’m currently a college student.
