"Animal Farm" By George Orwell.

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"Animal Farm" By George Orwell

"Animal Farm" is a famous novel written by George Orwell after the Second World War. The

novel was controversial at the time it was written as characters in the book represent important

figures in the Russian revolution. The story is about rebellious and ill-treated animals

overthrowing Manor Farm but failing to cooperate fully and continuing to run the farm on there

own. There are many events that lead the downfall of their farm and these events become more

and more clear as the novel progresses.

Firstly, the rebellion fails due to the lack of realism in the speech that Old Major gives the farm.

He speaks of a day when there are no human beings and animals run their own farms and
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provide their own food. During his speech of equality and freedom a dog attempted to kill a rat

and the barn was divided into separate groups, each group containing a different species of

animal. Furthermore, the cat votes on both sides to decide if rats are 'Comrades'. This shows

that even that early on in the rebellion animals were being selfish. His speech is to idealistic

although the animals do not realise this at the time. Nevertheless the animals set to work and

begin to plan a rebellion ...

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