Animal Farm

Origin
George Orwell's Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Instead of using people in the novella Orwell humanizes animals. The mayor of the fictional town of Manor Farm is run by Old Major, an old board who summons the animals on the farm together to discuss the threat of the humans. Under his command and later his offspring once he dies they revolt and take over Old Major renaming it Animal Farm and adopting the Seven Commandments of Animalism. The pigs and boars take over teaching the others to read and write which educating the younger animals on the principles of Animalism. The revolt between animals and humans were based on the purges in Spain. This motivated Orwell to expose and strongly condemn what he saw as the Stalinist corruption of the original socialist ideals.

Effects
Ownership of the book turns the reader into an animal, most commonly a boar.