This essay demonstrates that the novel "The Animal Farm" by George Orwell can be seen as the historical analysis of the causes of the failure of the communism in Russia.

Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely-and this is vividly and eloquently proved in Orwell's short novel. "Animal Farm" is a simple fable of great symbolic value, and as Orwell himself explained: "it is the history of a revolution that went wrong". The novel can be seen as the historical analysis of the causes of the failure of communism, or as a mere fairy-tale; in any case it tells a good story that aims to prove that human nature and diversity prevent people from being equal and happy ,or at least equally happy.
"Animal Farm" tells the simple and tragic story of what ha…