The book Animal Farm by George Orwell is about a wide variety of animals living in a farm that starts a rebellion against the human and takes over the farm. The book starts out relatively straightforward. A pig related to as The Old Major tells everyone he have had a dream that he has to share. Later that night all animals gathers to hear what he has to say. During this alot of characters is introduced like for example Mollie, a very flirty mare, The horses Cover and Boxer, Benjamin the donkey, The three dogs Pincher, Jessie, Bluebell. And alot of other animals. Before the old Major explains his dream he tells all the animals how he has come to realise that the animals is being used by the humans. He starts holding an impressive speech about how humanity uses animals without giving anything back. The humanity is described as egoistic and self-righteous being the only species that takes without giving anything back.


"Man is the only creature that consumes without  producing. He does  not  give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is
too weak to  pull the  plough, he  cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of  all the animals.  He
sets  them  to work, he gives back  to them  the  bare minimum that will  prevent them from starving, and  the rest
he  keeps for  himself."

Quoted from Major´s speech.

Afterwards, the old Major tells the animals about his dream. He tells everyone that in his dream, he heard a song called "The beasts of England". The old major then sings the song for the animals. The song is about how animals one day will become free and how the soil of the earth should belong to the animals. The major dies three days later but a strong impression has been made and the idea of the animals being free is spreading quickly. One day, when the farmer forgets to feed the animals, the animals have had enough and successfully takes over the farm. This is a very interesting scenario and just the begginning of the book. However, there is alot of quite obvious metaphores and similarities to historic scenarios. For example there is Moses, the raven that is a pretty obvious metaphore for religion.


"The pigs  had an  even harder  struggle to counteract  the lies put  about by Moses, the tame raven. Moses, who
was Mr. Jones's especial  pet, was  a spy and a tale−bearer, but he was also a clever talker. He  claimed to know
of  the existence of a  mysterious country called  Sugarcandy  Mountain,  to  which all animals went when they
died.  It  was situated  somewhere up in the  sky, a little distance beyond the  clouds, Moses said. In Sugarcandy
Mountain  it was  Sunday seven days a  week, clover was in season all the  year  round,  and lump sugar and
linseed cake grew on the hedges."

Also, there is alot of similarities with the situation in soviet russia during the later stages of the second world war. During the second world war Lenin took over russia by using the fact that the people had been mistreated by the emperor of Russia. The old Major uses the same concept except it´s the animals being mistreated by the humans. I don´t want to draw any conclusions yet though since i haven´t read the whole book yet.