Symbolism In George Orwell's Animal Farm

“Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the texture of human life” by Alfred Whitehead. Symbolism helps us to comprehend things. Some ideas and points in life are so complicated that writers and artist use symbolism to make it easier to understand. Just like, the Author of the book “Animal Farm”, George Orwell. He writes this book about animals who revolt on as farm and end up more worse then before. Orwell uses symbolism in good and bad animals to representative the society that Russia had at the time.
First of all, he had many virtuous characters in his story, and the cart-horse named clover is a good example. She was very kind and loving creature and she started to realist that the pigs were up to something. She was close to clover and was worried about him working to hard “Clover warned
his main antagonist, napoleon, stood for the political leaders of Russia. Napoleon broke many rules and caused a lot of trouble in the farm. one of his negative acts was sending boxer to his death. “some of the animals had noticed that the van which took boxer away was marked ‘horse slaughterer’... surely they knew their beloved leader, comrade napoleon, better than that?”(125). He sent his best worker away to slaughter because boxer was injured. there was a commandment that said you shouldn't kill another animal, yet, technically he did kill him. In addition, he changed the most important commandment. near the end of the story, after he broke most of the rules already, he changed the bottom commandment. ‘ there was nothing there but a single commandment ‘are animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’”(134). before, it used to be “all animals are equal.” and old major said it was the most important rule to follow. Now, napoleon, in his treacherous and selfish ways, changed it and made squealer cover it up. he's obviously a symbol of tyranny and