Animal Farm, George Orwell
Animal Farm is a social and political allegory which symbolically discusses the history and the rhetoric of the Russian revolution. It was written by George Orwell between 1943 and 1944, almost at the end of the Second World War. The first title of this classical novel was “Animal farm: A fairy story”, because the structure of the story is the same as the one of fairy tales, with talking animals and a moral. Though very simple, the plot hides some deep and complex themes and reflections . Basically it’s the story of a group of farm animals who every day had to obey their farmer until one day, guided by some pigs, they decided to rebel, hoping to create a better and more egalitarian society. The initial ideas of the animals were simple and could be summed up in the seven commandments which were written on a wall in the barn: all those rules revolved around the most important one: “all animals are equals”. Time passed and with the revo...