The animals on the farm organize a rebellion, taking over the entirety of said farm for themselves. It is meant to be something separate from humans. All animals are equal, and no more food shortages are supposed to happen. But, it is a vision of the nature of communism. At the beginning, everyone is equal, everyone is doing their fair share of work and dividing the products. But then, a pig by the name of Napoleon, becomes a leader, and things start to change. The commandments which they had previously followed were slowly changed for the benefit of the pigs, who appeared to be the upper class of the farm.
In the end, with everything changed, it's very apparent what has failed with Animal Farm. It's moved from a community run farm into a dictatorship.
I really enjoyed this, and I could see the changes as they happened. The animals were convinced by the smooth talking pigs that everything was all right, nothing was changing, production was high. But they each slowly started to realize that things weren't quite right, but when you question, you get killed.
This is a moving book about how some forms of government just can't work. Someone always takes over and corrupts the whole thing.
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