Jack Avis answers “So is this really about animals or is it...”

A Goodreads user asked this question about Animal Farm:

So is this really about animals or is it representing people?

Jack Avis This story is just short of an exact telling of the history of the rise of the Soviet Union. It begins with the prophecies of Karl Marx as told in he …moreThis story is just short of an exact telling of the history of the rise of the Soviet Union. It begins with the prophecies of Karl Marx as told in he form of an old boar 'Old Major' exile of Farmer Jones (Czar Nicholas II) follows the history onwards through the Russian Civil war (the Battle of the Cowshed), the exile of Trotsky (Snowball) all the way to the complete an total corruption of the original principles of Animal Farm where Napoleon (Joseph Stalin) rules over animal farm (USSR) in such an unashamedly totalitarian way he has become one in the same with the humans. Animal Farm has ceased long ago to be a socialist utopia and is less free than before. The book is a scathing indictment for the atrocities that Stalin commited.(less)

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