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Animal uprise As A Social check           Writers often use social criticism in their books to show depravation or weak points of a group in society.  One trend of doing this is allegory which is a story in which figures and actions are symbols of general truths.  George Orwell is an manakin of an author who uses allegory to show a social criticism effectively.  As in his novel Animal Farm, Orwell makes a parody of Soviet fabianism as demonstrated by Animal Farms brutal totalitarian incur, manipulated and employ working manakin, and the grunters evolution into the capitalists they initially opposed.  Totalitarianism is a political authorities based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict comprise of all aspects of life.  It was used by Stalin and the Bolsheviks in Russia during the 1920s and 30s and is parodied in Animal Farm by snooze, the almighty leader, and his fellow pigs and their ridicu lous propaganda and rigorous rule. In the book, Napoleon is deified and made superior to all other animals on the farm, for example he is called emperor or leader speckle everyone else was referred to as a partner, and all the pigs were given higher authority then the rest of the animals.  An inconsistency between the pigs and rest of the farm was that the pigs lived in the farm house while the other majority had to sleep in pastures.  A certain pig Squealer who could turn black into white was in charge of propaganda, and he would often change the orders of the farm so that they would fit the actions of Napoleon or the upper class of the farm which was supposedly classless.  For example, at one prison term a commandment read No animal shall drink intoxicant(P. 75), but soon after Napoleon drank an abundance and almost died the commandment was changed to No animal shall drink to excess. which made it seem as though Napoleon was within the rules.  Another instanc e where Napoleon showed severe rule was when everyone on the farm who had either pledged for or showed support at one time for Snowball, the exiled former leader, was executed on the spot.  This act was a humorous resemblance of The Great Purge in Russia where all opposite was killed off.  The governing system of the Animal Farm was truly corrupt, but it did not stop with the propaganda and executions. At first on the Animal Farm, it was promised to the majority of the animals who were neither Napoleon or a pig, or the so-called working class, that from each according to his ability to each according to his needs, no more, no less.