George Orwell, the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair was a British novelist, essayist and critic. Animal Farm is a political allegory. Orwell described the generation living in the early days of the Russian Revolution, but the moral the book teaches can be applied on recent days, too. After driving the farmer Mr. Jones, who represents Tsar Nicholas II, the animals have taken over the farm and established a “People`s Democracy”. Soon comrade Napoleon (Stalin), one of the pigs, declares himself to be their leader. Their state is based on the principle: “Four legs good, two legs bad”. Some time later, Snowball (Trotsky), another pig and one of the chief revolutionaries, who has been awarded the decoration “Animal Hero, First Class“ is denounced by Napoleon as a traitor and is chased from the farm. Over the course of time, the pigs develop into a ruling class with all the privileges for which they had hated Mr. Jones and assume the role of dictators. The original slogan of the animals, „All animals are equal“, was slightly changed by adding some words: „All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others“… The book was written over sixty years ago, but its idea is still topical, as today`s Napoleons are always ready to misuse the common people and apply their own justice.
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