Jones, and start to run the farm themselves. Over time, the pigs begin to make small changes to the set-in-stone rules they laid down for a fair and useful society, seizing control and eventually becoming far worse than Jones. The use of animals for a Aesop-like fable and simple storytelling style make the novel a brief but interesting read, humorous in many aspects and able to captivate the reader's interest. However, the abrupt deaths of numerous characters and violent action sequences disrupt the otherwise morose but calm flow of the story. Animal Farm was one of the first works of literature to address the consequences of socialism. After World War II, most Europeans and Americans were convinced that the rising communist system in Russia was the beginning of a new and wonderful form of civilization. (Baker, vi) However, George Orwell witnessed some of the disturbing developments beginning to form under Stalin's command, and realized that the world needed to be disabused of the communist ideal. Based on his firsthand experience, he wrote Animal Farm expressly to educate, packaged in a fairytale. It has since become one of the “(twentieth) century's most devastating literary acts of political destruction” (Baker, vi). Since then, no
Jones, and start to run the farm themselves. Over time, the pigs begin to make small changes to the set-in-stone rules they laid down for a fair and useful society, seizing control and eventually becoming far worse than Jones. The use of animals for a Aesop-like fable and simple storytelling style make the novel a brief but interesting read, humorous in many aspects and able to captivate the reader's interest. However, the abrupt deaths of numerous characters and violent action sequences disrupt the otherwise morose but calm flow of the story. Animal Farm was one of the first works of literature to address the consequences of socialism. After World War II, most Europeans and Americans were convinced that the rising communist system in Russia was the beginning of a new and wonderful form of civilization. (Baker, vi) However, George Orwell witnessed some of the disturbing developments beginning to form under Stalin's command, and realized that the world needed to be disabused of the communist ideal. Based on his firsthand experience, he wrote Animal Farm expressly to educate, packaged in a fairytale. It has since become one of the “(twentieth) century's most devastating literary acts of political destruction” (Baker, vi). Since then, no