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What if the animals ran the world? George Orwell tried to answer this question on a smaller scale in his 1945 novel, Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a satire on Stalinism and the Russian revolution. Orwell wrote this novel at a time when communism was on the rise a ....

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.... distinguish themselves, Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon is big, and although he is not a good speaker, he can assert himself. Snowball is a better speaker; he has a lot of ideas and is very vivid. Together with another pig called Squealer, who is a very good speaker, they work out the theory of “Animalism.” The rebellion starts some months later, when Mr. Jones comes home drunken one night, and forgets to feed the animals. They break out of the barns and run to the house, where the food is stored. When Mr. Jones recognizes this he takes out his shotgun, but it is too late for him, all the animals fall over him and drive him off the ....