Animal Farm Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, is an English author commonly known to write about political issues. Orwell has been highly acclaimed and criticized for his novels, including one of his most famous, Animal Farm. In a satirical form, George Orwell uses personified farm animals to express his views on stalinism in the novel Animal Farm. Throughout Orwell's early novels, democratic socialism kept the author from total despair of …showed first 75 words of 1163 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1163 total…the fate of the animals. We care about them too much merely to translate events into their historical equivalent." There is no such possibility in Animal Farm, nor, by the end , can we escape the weight of the book's sadness by thinking that these things have only happened to animals(Gardner 107). We look from the oppressed animals in the book to the oppressed human beings outside and back again, and can see no difference (Gardner 107).