e, took a piece of ribbon and put the ribbon on her shoulder looking at herself into the humans mirror. (Orwell 31) She actually leaves the farm for sugar and ribbons at a human hotel. (Orwell 52) He (Orwell) may have been thinking about certain Russian nobles who left after the Revolution or a general human type. Some readers view Animal Farm as a perfect illustration of the famous saying associated with British historian Lord Action, All power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Internet) Orwell never forgets this delicate balance between how real animals actually behaves and what human qualities his animals are supposed to represent. Since Orwell attacks that new society and despite the grim bitter picture he paints of it, he attacks it with humor (the humor of the animal fable), the reader can also call Animal Farm a satire. Satire, which is irony, is a contrast or contradiction, such as between what a statement seems to say and what it really means or between what really happens. For example, all year long the animals worked like slaves(Orwell 63). This could simply mean that the animals worked very hard. It is charged with meaningful irony. The animals may not know it, but they really are becoming slaves. Their sacrifice is not for the benefit of themselves(Orwell 63) as they think, but readers soon realize, for their new masters, the pigs. In addition, the book tells the story from the nave viewpoint of the mass of animals and often in the objective voice without explaining the event. For instance, theres a crash one night and Squealer is found in the barn sprawled on the ground beside a broken ladder, a brush, and a pot of paints (Orwell 103). It was a strange incident, which hardly anyone was able to understand. A few days later, the animal find that the 5th commandment painted on the barn wall is not exactly as they remembered. It read, no animal shall drink alcohol (Orwell 33). Now they can see two words at t...
