Showing posts with label orwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orwell. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Animal Farm

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

I did this one to look like a silk-screened poster. It could also be a book cover. This is Napoleon from George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Animal Farm is a novella by George Orwell, and is perhaps the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Published in 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. The plot is an allegory in which animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal, but soon disparities start to emerge between the different species or classes. The novel describes how a society's ideologies can be changed and manipulated by individuals in positions of power.