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Animal Farm

Orwell's use of simple characters to express the effect of power and revolutions on normal people can be interpreted in two ways. For some readers, Animal Farm could be seen as an innocent fable or fairy story. However it hides a much more complex story a much more complex story. Its deeper meaning is that of revolutions, dictatorships and also a warning of what can happen under a totalitarian state.

Orwell uses the fable as a way of putting the story across in a simple, understandable fashion. The fable style makes the story more accessible to a large audience. Animal Farm was written by Orwell to put his vies of revolution across. He questions if there is any positive outcome from rebellion or revolution and if it does actually make everyone have equal benefits from the poor to the rich and leaders.

Orwell's representation of historical figures is accurate. Each character is a portrait of a person involved in the Russian Revolution and its progression to dictator-led communism. The book is written in a way so we almost instantly loathe the pigs as characters and also for what they represent. They never worked in the fields but told the other animals what to do. Napoleon is the clear leader almost from the beginning of the story. Napoleon is described by Orwell as:

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"not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way."

Snowball seems a more complex character. Orwell wrote:

"Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive."

It seems as though Orwell wanted to say that revolution leaders used more forceful tactics than other possible candidates that were altogether more sensitive, resourceful and intelligent. One such example is Napoleon's ignorance towards Snowball when he urinated on his blueprints for the windmill. He also used force to brainwash the sheep into saying one phrase exactly when he wanted them to.

Although Napoleon ...

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