Animal Farm

Main Ideas

• Critique of totalitarian regimes through an allegory of the Soviet Union
• Dangers and consequences of power, corruption, and class discrimination
• The idea that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
• Depiction of changes in revolutionary ideals that ultimately lead back to the starting point
• Highlighting the theme of altering history and propaganda in the interests of the ruling class
• A warning that a new regime can be worse than the previous one if power is concentrated in the hands of a few