earns to walk upright. He teaches the sheep to change their chant to "Four legs good, two legs better," and the Seven Commandments are replaced with a single commandment: "All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others". The novel ends with the animals watching the dinner proceedings through the window. It is then they realize with horror that they can no longer tell the pigs' faces from the human ones. They are no better than the humans.
             Animal Farm is ingeniously written by George Orwell. He hides the true satire behind his novel with symbolism. The animals in Animal Farm are nothing more than the Russian people during the Russian Revolution. The whole novel is based off the communist regime and how it was overtaken and overtaken again only to come back to where it started. Some of the animals represent individuals in the Russian Revolution, and some types of animals represent different types of Russian citizens. The book carries out much like the actual revolution. It starts out with hopes of an empire where all are equal and the unfair unjust leader is thrown out. Then it moves on to where some individuals begin to take more power than is rightfully theirs. At the end the rulers have completely taken over and the kingdom is as it was under the original rulers. The overall theme is revolution and upbringing against a government and how it unfolded.
             Another work of Orwell's, 1984 brings out the symbolism just as vividly as Animal Farm. 1984 is about life in a world where no personal freedoms exist. Winston, the main character, is a man of 39 who is not extraordinary in either intelligence or character, but is disgusted with the world he lives in. He works in the Ministry of Truth, a place where history and the truth is rewritten to fit the party's beliefs. Winston is aware of the untruths, because he makes them true. This makes him very upset with the government of Oceania, where Big Brother, a la...