The novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and the rock album, Animals written and performed by Pink Floyd share

the same characteristic of scathing social commentary. The artworks also share an animal metaphor that serves to

cast a dark light on human social interactions and stratification functions. Conversely, the artworks individually

attack the diametrically opposed, socio-economic systems of communism (by Orwell) and capitalism (by Roger

Waters). The artworks are individually astounding, but when viewed in tandem, alludes to the idea that

socio-economic systems are still evolving and in time the terms capitalism and communism will be thought as

ineffective as feudalism. The shared characteristics of social commentary and animal metaphor literally, are what

been and still are tempted to abuse that power for their own individual ends,often at the expense of those that have

socio-economic systems of this century. Neither provides for true equality, and they both exploit their masses, with

granted them their power. Capitalism is not immune from this inherent flaw in social stratification either. Roger

into focus when one experiences these artworks side by side, a stereoscopic view of the current, prominent

individually espouse. Orwell's novel is an obvious attack against communism. The pig characters of the novel

while saying that it does. Ours system is on level ground with communism for providing equality, especially when

highly competitive and often, ruthless. In Animal Farm, Orwell puts the pigs as being the leaders, or the exploiters of

knows which way the masses will change over time. This is the scathing social commentary that is sometimes found

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