Dystopia Animal Farm

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Animal Farm is a dystopian classic novel. From the start the animals wanted to rebel against humans. So they did and in the end the rebellion became a success. But once they started they already had problems maintaining and going through with the original idea for the rebellion. Eventually they were betrayed, twice both by the same person. After that point they started to become more human. This was controversy because they originally rebelled to get away from the humans but are now starting to become more and more similar to them. In the ed the pigs ended up acting and becoming more human than animal-like and caused the whole reason to rebel to be abolished.

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