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Death to Humanity, Long live Animal Farm! Over the last couple weeks I have been reading Animal Farm (by George Orwell), a satire of totalitarian countries and leaders spanning from the 1920s to the 1950s. To give a brief synopsis of the book so you first understand it, the story starts out on a small farm where animals who slave daily for an ungrateful incompetent master lead an insurrection which ousts him and establishes a new order called “Animalism”. Animalism soon becomes contorted and turned from a brotherhood of animals into a dictatorship, similar to the former regime but now they slave for one of their own, not a Farmer. On a broad level one could say this is the book in a nutshell, but when looked at on a deeper level you realize the true satire of it and how greatly it is a lesson for mankind. You realize this through the way it explores the topic of control, how it proves the life lesson that an administration’s principles and actions should be the agreement of ethics between the leader and the people as a whole, also how great a role symbolism can play in literature.