Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is based on the Russian Revolution. The utopia ideas are based on the ideas of Karl Marx's Communist Manifest. The characters are in fact based on real participants in the Russian Revolution.
The author has used animals as the main characters of the novel and is set on Mr. Jones's "Manor Farm" where, like on any other farm, the animals are usually raised, used, killed and then eaten. An old pig, known as Old Major, tells the animals on the farm that they are treated cruelly and kept in slavery by man. Old Major then goes on to describe his vision of England where animals are free and live in happiness, cooperation, without the tyranny of men. He tells them that the animals must cooperate together to fight men. Old Major represents the idealistic revolutionary leaders whose ideas are usually the catalyst for such revolutions.
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