Literary Analysis Guides

Power. Its allure corrupts, its methods manipulate, and its consolidation often betrays the ideals it claims to uphold. George Orwell’s Animal Farm remains a vital, chilling exploration of this theme. Through the allegory of a farm animal rebellion, Orwell dissects how power is seized, maintained, and abused, mirroring historical totalitarian regimes and offering timeless warnings. […]

“Donkeys live a long time.” Benjamin the donkey, Animal Farm’s resident cynic and perhaps its most perceptive observer, watches the revolution unfold with weary detachment. Representing the skeptical intelligentsia or enduring wisdom in George Orwell’s allegory, Benjamin understands the pigs’ manipulations but rarely intervenes. He reserves his comments for cryptic remarks about life’s unchanging hardships—until

“All animals are equal.” It began with a dream, a speech, and a wise old boar. Old Major, the prize Middle White boar in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, catalyzes the revolution. Representing the foundational ideas of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, Old Major articulates the miserable existence under human rule, identifies Man as the sole