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Animal Farm/George Orwell

George Orwell was born on June 25, 1903; he was an English writer
who used pseudonym (a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name). It is
quite simple to recognize his writing due to the fact that he uses profound
consciousness of social injustice and a passion he carries for clarity in language. Orwell wrote works in many different genres including fiction, polemics, journalism, memoir and critical essays, but his most famous works are two novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Of the two, I found Animal Farm to be the most interesting.
To begin with, the setting of this novel takes a place on a farm known as Manor Farm which is a constant setting, the short novel is an allegory in which animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm(which represents the government at the time), setting it up as a community in which, at first, all animals are equal; but soon enough class and status   soon emerge between the different animal species, which leads to an overall dominant class. The novel describes how a society's ideas can be manipulated and twisted by those in positions of social and political power, and how corruption can lead a peaceful community into complete anarchy.
The antagonist of the story is Napoleon, a Berkshire boar, is the main tyrant and villain of Animal Farm and is based upon Joseph Stalin. Napoleon begins to gradually build up his power by using puppies he took who from the character Bluebell and Jessie, which he raises to be vicious dogs as his secret police. After driving Snowball off the farm, Napoleon gains full power, using false propaganda from Squealer (Napoleons’ right hand man) and threats and intimidation from the dogs to keep the other animals in line. Napoleon is a very complex antagonist because of the two sides he shows to the characters as being nice, and behind their backs as being a vicious dictator. The protagonist of the story is Snowball,...