George Orwell's Animal Farm uses animals is a very effective way. Pigs accentual live a life of ease on a normal farm, eating plentiful and playing in the mud. Orwell used this idea of a pigs duty on a farm to help show the role of the ruling class. The pigs on Animal Farm only supervised the work of others and ate all the apples and milk.
As a child I always wanted a pony, not because I like horses, or even because I wanted to ride her. The sole reason I wanted a pony was because they are cute. Honestly is there really any other reason they exist? Orwell successfully used the that idea of ponies to represent the extravagant lives of the upper class, in the character Mollie who only likes to eat sugar and play with the ribbons in her hair.
You know, I wonder how he came up with all this? I mean did he just sit around thinking of analogies to Russia all day?
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