Animal Farm is a short political fable by George Orwell based on
Joseph Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution. Orwell wrote
it because he wished to destroy what he called the "Soviet
myth". Like Nineteen Eighty-Four, the story is one of the most
famous political allegories in the world. It is about a group of
animals who rebel against the humans from the farm they live on
and run it themselves with hopes of being equal, free, and
happy. In the end, however, the new rule becomes a cruel tyranny
of its own led by the pigs. Written during World War II and
published in 1945, it was not well received at first, but is
widely accepted as a classic today. Plot summary [change] The
animals of the Manor Farm live bad condition because their
farmer Mr. Jones, a bad and always drunken man, exploites them.
One day the Old Major, an old pig, called a meeting of all the
animals and told them about a dream that he had had the previous
night. He had dreamed about an old song 'Beasts of England' that
started a resistance