"Every line I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism," says George Orwell in the preface to the Classic edition of Animal Farm.

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A man named Lord Acton said the above quote.

Every line I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism,” says George Orwell in the preface to the Classic edition of Animal Farm.

Power in the words of the dictionary means the ‘ability to do or act’. Power is a source by which man expresses his pride and ability to do things. He can either abuse it or use it for useful reasons. But in majority of the cases, power is abused, as it is the human nature to do so. As humans get more power so does their ability to do things according to their will. This story is mostly based on Russia and the political condition during that time. Animal Farm is a satire on Stalinism and the Russian revolution.

The concept of Animalism is based on the dream of Old Major, a prized-boar of Mr. Jones. Old Major, is able to gather all the animals on the farm except the sleeping Moses, the raven, for a speech about a dream he had the previous night. In his talk, Old Major tries to explain the animals place in nature and how they can get out of it, very much like Karl Marx's writing on the social consciousness of the proletariat in ‘A Contribution to the Political Economy’ and the evil practices of government-controlled capitalism in ‘The Communist Manifesto’. “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their social being”, wrote Marx, “but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness”. He also called for revolution by the proletariat of Russia in ‘The Communist Manifesto’, to change the social and political structure of the state and its distribution of wealth. Orwell agreed with some of Marx's social arguments, but later disagreed with many of his other beliefs. In Animal Farm, we can see Orwell’s depictions of man as a social animal and his ‘Socialist’ ideologies through Old Major's very Marxist speech in the barn: “Why do we then continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word -Man. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.……. He sets the animals to work and gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving and the rest he keeps for himself…… Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own.……. That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!” Unfortunately, Old Major passes away before the rebellion began. But he was the cause of inspiration in the animals. Some saw this as a start of a better life, some saw it as an opportunity to gain power and use it for themselves.

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After the rebellion and the sudden victory of the animals over the humans, the pigs assumed the control as they were the cleverest of all and undertook the administration of the farm. At first things went pretty well with Snowball as leader. Snowball really wanted to make life easier for al the animals on the farm. Meanwhile while he was in control, Napoleon, another pig who would become a tyrant, used to be away with some dogs. And after some days he came out and used these dogs to drive out Snowball from the farm who got away in ...

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