The Allusion Of Communism In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Communism, a governmental system popularized within the last century. Communism is often associated with Russians, especially because Karl Marx, a russian philosopher, invented the idea of communism within the Russians’ Government System. George Orwell, a world-renowned American author, tells this story through one of his books, but he takes a surprising twist. Instead of retelling the story, he uses animals as an allusion to Russian communism. Animal Farm, unlike conventional animal books, is very morbid by conveying the problems that come from Communism. In Animal Farm, animals live together in a caste system, which ranges from the most intelligent being at the top, while the least intelligent being at the bottom, respectively pigs and

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