Communism has been an unattainable dream, a dream which finds fault in its own design. Eric Arthur Blair, more commonly known by the pen name of George Orwell, was attentive to this dream, while still standing as a staunch critic of it. Orwell describes this in the preface to Animal Farm, his allegorical take on the rise of the eventual Soviet Union, and a book that would further investigate the fear of a totalistic government. Animal Farm establishes its ideas during a somber night, in where the farm of harshly-treated animals meet in a barnhouse, to listen to the the dream of their dying leader, a show boar who goes by the name of Old Major. As the animals congregate, looking up towards Major, he begins to speak. “Comrades, you have heard
