Political

Animal Farm

This book is wildly famous for being overwhelmingly political, and for good reason. It's parallel to the Russian revolution is as sharp as it is simple, brilliant as it is haunting. The book begins with a dream, just as all revolutions do, that was brought to life by an old dying pig. This dying pig, "Old Major or rather Vladimir Lenin, arouses an army of farm animals to overthrow their owner setting in motion a myriad of metaphors and allusions to Troshkey, Stalin, czars, and hypocrites. After Old Major dies two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, fight for power to be the dictator, therefore buying into their roles as power hungry generals/tyrants. This is the brilliance of the novel. While the characters in the book are animals the men in reality are not. These two universes work in perfect harmony as perfect metaphor to build up to the end in which the owners, men, and the dictator pig, an animal, stare each other down across a table and it becomes hard to tell "which one was which".