aricatures, designed to portray what it means to be victims and victimizers, and especially how victims can become victimizers. The animals on the totalitarian farm are in this way Orwell's way of expressing his condemnation of the utopian illusions of the Soviet Communists. Of course, just as Soviet communism began with idealistic claims and hopes, the taking over of the farm by the animals is full of idealism as well.
The enemy is Mr. Jones, owner of the farm. He symbolizes "Man"--the exploitive capitalist using the animals as slaves to earn his profits. Jones is a drunk, a cruel man, and runs the farm with little competence. Then, Major, an old boar who likely represents Marx, the theoretical father of communism, has a dream and proclaims to the other animals what sounds like the Communist Manifesto:
Now, comrades, . . . our lives are miserable,
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