Orwell's main messages:
1.
All revolutions are betrayed eventually. The idealism they begin with will disappear and
society will become corrupt.
2. Those who take power (the
pigs) will take more and more and they will misuse it for their own selfish
benefit.
3. Do not trust politicians. Boxer trusts
Napoleon, but Napoleon sends him to his death.
4. Any
political system will become corrupt if they (the politicians) are allowed to get away
with it. Think of how the pigs gradually change all the commandments for their own
benefit.
The novel is really an allegory about the Russian
Revolution and the what happened in the Soviet Union up to 1945. If we add this
perspective, we can say that Orwell's other message is
1.
Stalin and the Communist Party (Napoleon and the pigs) betrayed the ordinary people of
Russia in the name of equality. Stalin murdered millions of his countrymen - this is
mirrored in the scene where many animals are slaughtered in the
barn.
Have you studied the book as an allegory? If not -
feel free to ask more questions!!
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