George Orwell's Animal Farm

George Orwell was chiefly interested in justice and equality. He was a deeply pessimistic man who had powers of imagination which few of his contemporaries dreamed one man could have. Orwell’s character and writing style was so deep that qualities that were and still are manifest in his work, did not reveal themselves in his life (Scott-Kilvert 273). In his short life, Orwell distinguished himself as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary critic, and political polemicist. …

…is said that most revolutions end in the same corruptness and inequality that they start in and the revolution in Animal Farm is no different as the animals revolt against a corrupt leader in Mr. Jones, and end up with a just as corrupt leader in Napoleon. In the end the pigs are indistinguishable from humans and the ideals of the revolution seem distant or forgotten in the face of terror, manipulation and despair (Beacham 1083).