George Orwell's Animal Farm is a totalitarian allegory, originally a satirical tale against Stalin. The animal revolution, if it succeeded in driving out the humans, was a failure because it resulted in a simple change of masters but not of the status of submission. This failure was the source of much criticism of Orwell's apparent defeatism, even though he did explain in 1946 : " What I was trying to say was : you can only have a revolution if you make it for yourself; there is no such thing...
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