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at the end all the seven Commandments are abbandoned and only one remains: "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"

at first the animals' lives are guided by Seven Commandments based on equality but there are gradually altered by the pigs who become dictatorial

the book is a short narrative set on a farm where a group of oppressed animals, capable of speech and reason, overcome their cruel master and set up a revolutionary government

animal farm

Ramo principale

Sottoargomento

the animals

Napoleon is obviously Stalin

Snowball represents Trotsky

farmer Jones is Czar Nicolas II

old majon stands for a mixture of Marx and lenin

each animal symbolises a precise figure or representative type

plot

the historical background of the book

the book shows how an initial idealism can turn into exploitation and how ordinary people can lose their freedom in small incremental steps

the tone of the book blends humor and sarcasm with horrifying scenes

Orwell's reaction to these events caused him to write Animal Farm

in 1939 Stalin signed a pact with Hitler which enabled the Germans to take over Poland and Czechoslovakia

in the late 1930s news reached the West of Stalin's 'purge trials'