This book became popular for its anti-establishment socio-religious message and has become an inspiration for many political radicals.

             'Animal Farm" like 'The Pilgrim"s Progress" is a very powerful book with many messages. Orwell, the author of the book was one of the great English satirists; Satire is a very intellectual type of writing. Orwell was from a middle-class background and in an effort to push him up the class system, which was very apparent in his time, his parents had sent him to a preparatory school. Orwell later won a scholarship to Eton and on leaving he joined the Indian police and went to Burma. Orwell served the police for a further five years, learning about life. He later came back to England with his mind made up that he wanted to be a writer. He lived in poverty striving to be a writer for several years, living in Paris and then London. He joined the Republican forces in the Spanish civil war. He then resigned from his position in Burma, and decided to speak out about against the domination of people over others. This is when he came up with 'Animal Farm". Orwell saw himself as the exposer of unpleasant truths about society, he saw himself as the voice of the English moral conscience. He had lived through the time of the Russian revolution when the Russian masses had taken over the running of the country, led by Joseph Stalin. He wrote this book as a parallel to this, showing his views on what happened.

             Orwell shows in the book that he thought there was something fundamentally wrong with human nature, he thought that idealistic political systems tended to overlook this. Unlike Bunyan in 'The Pilgrim"s Progress" Orwell"s writing involved politics. This is because Orwell thought that good writers should see things as they are, not as someone else might like them to be.

             'Animal farm" is an interesting book that allows the reader to enjoy what they are reading as well as get a political message.