“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” is one of the most famous quotes from George Orwell's Animal Farm. From afar, Animal Farm is a fictional novel with no real substance, but if read carefully, it is a chilling allegory of the horrors of the Russian Revolution. Orwell highlights in the novel the dangers that accompany a bureaucratic or totalitarian regime. The novel supports the idea that communism is an immoral and unjust system of government and harms society. While Orwell hides the fact that the novel contains information identical to events regarding Russia in the 1940s, he innocently uses it by using simple farm animals to directly compare different events and characters from the revolution. Comrade Napoleon, the pig the farm was actually the equivalent of Joseph Stalin of the revolution. The dogs followed Napoleon around like the KGB or secret police followed Stalin. The dogs were devoted to Stalin and hurt those who opposed them. “Immediately the dogs rushed forward, grabbed four pigs by the ear and dragged ...
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