The allegory Animal Farm The book Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell,...

's personal
experience played a great role in his political writings.  After being a colonial police officer
in Burma, Orwell returned to England and came in contact with poor, unemployed coal miners. 
This experience swayed Orwell towards socialism.  However, as a Socialist in the 1930s, Orwell
became disturbed by the spread of dictatorships and wrote  in his
disillusionment with Communism. ...