For the first half century after its publication, Orwell's dystopia 1984 was perceived as a vicious satire on communist regimes. But, alas, the prophetic details of the world of "1984" are becoming more and more the reality of the modern, as it were, decommunized world. Fantastic realities, invented by George Orwell for Britain in 1984, have long been included in the cultural code of modern man, dependent on global corporations, social networks and media. Along with Yevgeny Zamyatin's Us (1920), Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), 1984 is considered a cult classic of dystopia. * * * Orwell's Animal Farm is a parable full of bitter irony and sarcasm. The tragic story of a community of animals who decided to get rid of oppression by people, and fell under the savage power of pigs. The story depicts the evolution of a community of naive animal revolutionaries who drove its owner, the cruel Mr. Jones, from the barnyard: from romantic freedom to the dictatorship of a treacherous and self-serving boar named Napoleon. In the story, Orwell showed the rebirth of revolutionary principles and programs, that is, a gradual transition from the ideas of universal equality and the construction of a utopia to dictatorship and totalitarianism. Animal Farm is a parable, an allegory for the 1917 revolution and subsequent events in Russia.
