The Destruction of Utopian Ideals (Animal Farm, by Orwell)

George Orwell’s book, Animal Farm, is a scathing satire on the failure of the Russian communist revolution to free the Russian people and establish an egalitarian society. The characters in this revolution are represented by a variety of animals whose society is an animal farm. The animals have some serious grievances against their tyrannical human bosses and stage a rebellion to free themselves of oppression and to create a utopian society based on the …

…eliminate his competition, Snowball. He creates a society which is as far removed as possible from the original goals of the rebellion. It is the greatest irony of this book that Napoleon and the pigs become the very oppressors that in the original rebellion they had fought so hard to overcome. In fact, conditions for the animals on the farm has become even more oppressive under the pigs’ dictatorship than that of the human bosses.