Nicole Calape BSED 3A (EL116)
A Historical Analysis of Animal Farm Animal Farm was written by George Orwell , one of the world's most influential writers. This literature was published in 1945 that criticizes the Soviet Union's corruption of socialist ideals. According to Gale (2015) George Orwell used farm animals to represent figures of the Russian Revolution ( here ) to illustrate how promises of equality in a revolution can be turned into oppressive regimes of domination. In this story, the animals' planned to kill their human owners that starts off equally but turned to despair. Orwell uses the novel, written as an allegory of the Russian Revolution, to criticize how moral principles become corrupted by power. We will examine just how Animal Farm reflects Historical Criticism , in which the characters and events of the story parallel real people and events from early Soviet Russia. The story talks about pigs, led by Napoleon, start keeping privileges f...