Animal Farm by George Owell

The duty of all writers is to engage their readers so that they can enjoy and relate to a situation.   George Orwell’s Animal Farm, is a political satire written in the form of an allegory which reflected the events leading up to and during the Stalinist era in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Joseph Stalin was a corrupt leader who was protected by propaganda. Stalin used threats and other methods to make the people of Russia vulnerable. The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness and greed can destroy the possibilities of a Utopia. Orwell was for democratic socialism, and it was not until after he escaped the Spanish civil war that he was inspired to write Animal Farm, therefore then written so that animal farm was a microcosm of the USSR. Through the use of character actions, emotive language and character dialogue, Orwell exposes and warns readers that absolute power corrupts absolutely and mocks the cruel events that followed Stalin’s role. Orwell positions me to see the results feel sympathy towards the people at the time of the revolution and to see how easily people can become corrupt.

In Soviet Russia there was a terrible issue that involved propaganda. The people, who lived through the Stalinist era, were vulnerable towards this as Stalin used propaganda against them. Stalin was high in power and was afraid to lose his position. Orwell uses the device of character actions to reflect real life events in soviet Russia, with the animals on animal farm. “When they had finished their confession the dogs promptly tore their throats out and in a terrible voice napoleon demanded whether any other animals had anything to confess... ‘no animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’...somehow or other the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory.” P.56-61. The animals that lived on animal farm lived under fear of their leader. Napoleon became so corrupt in his power that he...