Animal Farm - Muriel Analysis

Animal Farm, a novel written by Eric Blain’s pen name, George Orwell, and published in 1945, is a masterpiece that brilliantly satires the Russian Revolution and the corruption that power inflicts in leaders. The animals in Manor Farm, inspired by a veteran boar named Old Major, decide to overthrow its human leaders and run the farm themselves. After a successful coup, which they call the Rebellion, the animals take over the farm and start running …

…Orwell’s Animal Farm, has a great deal of symbolism behind her. She is a simple looking white goat that reads the commandments to Clover whenever she requests her to do so. She symbolizes the literate working class that, because occupying only a small portion of society, feels unmotivated and oppressed to stand up and rebel against its corrupt leaders. She is an essential character to both modern society and Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm.