George Orwell's Animal Farm

I personally thought animal farm was a really good book. It was a simple, easy to read story. The analysis of this book is pretty easy to figure out. Animal farm represents

Communism in Russia and it is just being retold in his book by farm animals. Every part of Joseph Sterling's rise to power is in this book. The Russian Revolution represents the animals overthrowing Mr. Jones.

Old Major (a boar) gathers the animals of the manor farm together for a meeting in the barn. He tells all of them of the dream he had. That all animals lived together in a community with no humans to take control of them. He tells them that they must work towards this paradise and teaches them a song called "Beasts of England" in which his dram was described. When he dies, (3 days later), the two younger pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, make his principles into a philosophy called animalism. One night the animals manage to defeat Mr. Jones (the farm owner) in a battle and ran him off the farm.

They rename it Animal Farm and dedicate it themselves to achieving old Majors dream. In particular the great cart horse Boxer devotes himself to the cause, taking "I will work harder" as his maxim and committing his great strength to the prosperity of the farm.

At first everything goes well, and there is food for all; Snowball works at teaching the animals to read, and Napoleon takes a group of young puppies to educate them in the

principles of Animalism. The animals defeat Mr. Jones's forces again, in what comes to

be known as the Battle of the Cowshed, and erect a monument to the event. As time

passes, however, Napoleon and Snowball are increasingly at odds, and struggle for power and influence among the other animals. Snowball concocts a scheme to build...

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...dmill not long after the battle the outlook is grim. Napoleon sells his most loyal worker to a glue-maker for whisky money, while claiming to have sent him to a human hospital, where, according to Squealer, he died in peace.

Years pass on Animal Farm, and the pigs become more and more like human beings-walking upright, carrying whips, and wearing clothes. Eventually the seven principles of Animalism, known as the Seven Commandments and inscribed on the side of the barn, are replaced with a single principle reading "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL* BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THEN OTHERS" Napoleon entertains Mr. Pilkington., a human farmer, at a dinner, and declares his intent to change the name of Animal Farm back to The Manor Farm. Looking in at the party through the farmhouse window, the common animals are unable to tell who are the pigs and who are the human beings.