George Orwell – Animal Farm

... Christopher Train Media Assignment: George Orwell - Animal Farm Introduction In 1942 a well-known political writer named Eric Blair, under the pen name of George Orwell, wrote an allegorical story, which he named 'Animal Farm'. He wrote this book mainly to point out the negative effects political systems can have on people and also to send out his views in away, which were disguised in a tale about animals living on a farm rebelling against humans. The theme of the book was not totally different, Orwell himself was a socialist and therefore hated communism, he saw this book as a brilliant way to critisise the current sweep of communism he saw travelling through Russia, Europe and eventually on to the USA. In this book he used the 'farm' to symbolise communism. 'Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose

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