Examples Of Allegory In Animal Farm

In Animal Farm by George Orwell, there are many examples of allegories. An allegory is a story that can be interpreted into having a different meaning. For instance, the novel starts off in a farm milieu with an erudite boar named Old Major who was very renown in the farm. He then begins to give a speech denouncing how the farm is run and saying that all the farm animals need to rebel against their owner, Mr. Jones, because the farm is becoming increasingly barren and incommodious and they would be better off without him. He also berates humans and says he abhors them because they are condescending and aloof (Orwell 1, 2, 3). Old Major reflects subversive Karl Marx who, in a book called The Communist Manifesto, said that different classes are