Critical Analysis for Animal Farm 

Eric Arthur Blair, best known by his pseudonym George Orwell. Animal Farm is a novella written by him. That was first published in 1945.Many of the themes and ideas presented in this novella were influenced by politics during the first half of the 20th century, and until now the novel is a source of intellectual pleasure and political insight. That gives a pessimistic picture of politics, and its strong use of humor and irony in the novel. So I consider it a model text for the reader of literature that contain some central issues in this very special fairy tale. One of the most important issues mentioned in the novel is religion.

Themes of religion and animals are paralleled with the main idea of this book. Orwell refers to religion as to “opium for the people” as Karl Marx This is what he said with a slightly more context: 'Religious suffering is, at the same time, the expression of real suffering and protest against real suffering. Religion is a sigh of relief for the oppressed creature, the heart of the world without heart, the spirit of circumstances without spirit. It is the opium of the people.' Marx felt that man creates religion, not vice versa, and that he uses religion to give his imaginary idea of happiness, when the real kind is elusive. On animal farm, Moses the raven represents the Russian Orthodox Church which suffered greatly under the rule of the Communists. This occurred in Chapter 2 'he claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all animals went when they died. It was situated somewhere up in the sky, a little distance beyond the clouds, Moses said. In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. The animals hated Moses because he told tales and did no work, but some of them believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place.”

At this stage, the animals are still optimistic about a better future, thus excluding Moses' stories of paradise elsewhere. But as the life of the animals deteriorated, I began to believe him, because 'their lives now, as they imagine, were tiring and hard. Clearly. Pigs allow Moses to stay on the farm - and even encourage his existence by rewarding him with beer - because they know that his stories about Mount sugar Candy will keep animals docile: as long as there is a better world somewhere - even after death. Thus, Orwell points out that religious devotion - seen by many as a noble character - can actually distort the ways one thinks about life on earth.

Eventually the animals are angry at the crow for not doing the work only he tells the tale . Before the rebellion, they cannot allow any animal to complain about themselves, or begin to focus on its next life. This attitude, however, changes dramatically at the end of the book. After the crow returned, the pigs welcomed him, giving him a liter of beer daily in secret. They still tell other animals that his stories are lies. Religious treason is required by pigs, because they are tyrants now. Animal expectations that life is better after death are less likely to do something about the present. Pigs understand this, as Marx did.