Animal Farm is a simple story with a complex field of reference, a fable that viciously attacks the history of the Soviet Communism by retelling it as the story of a group of farm animals. Animal Farm is a miniature nation, surrounded by a area full of farms that represent the other nations of the world. Each phase of Jospeh Stalin's rise to power in Russia is present in Animal Farm. The Russian Revolution, here …showed first 75 words of 664 total…

…showed last 75 words of 664 total…the novel, after Squealer's repeated rephrasing of Old Major's Seven Commandments, the main principle of the farm can be openly stated as "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS." This garish abuse of the word "equal" and of the ideal of equality generally is typical of the pigs' method. Orwell's sophisticated construction of this use of language is one of the most compelling and most enduring features of his novel.