Animal Farm is considered one of the best books of the 20th century. Throughout the story we see how George Orwell talks about many different issues that he faces throughout the story. Mainly all the issues that happened in Russia during Stalin's regime are what Orwell tries to show with his novel. This novel was banned in the USSR because it was considered anti-communist. On the other hand this novel was also banned in the United States due to its communist text at the beginning. This novel is an allegory of what was happening in Russia with communism. How communism rises and how corruption itself creates its own downfall. In the case of Animal Farm there are many social issues addressed in this novel. The main social issue that this novel focuses on is oppression and tyranny. From the beginning of the story we see how the animals felt oppressed by their drunken master. They obviously feel that they deserve more, that they have the chance to be free and break the chains of oppression. They eventually rebel and take over the farm, all the animals united as one. Of course the only way to do that is through a plan, a plan that only someone smart enough could pull off. This character is one of Old Major's pigs, without him the revolt and rise to power would not have been possible. Unfortunately Major Napoleon dies and Snowball takes command of the farm and begins to establish rules: there are seven rules and everyone must follow them. At first things start to get very friendly, the former Manor Farm now known as Animal is a place where animals are free from oppression. Soon this whole utopia starts to take a bad turn, the pigs decide to be more intelligent than the other animals and the other animals become... middle of paper... animals like the Boxer who was the strongest and most loyal animal over at the glue factory. Another strategy he uses is the tone he uses. At first everything is beautiful and joyful, then as time goes by the tone starts to become more solemn and by the end of the story the tone seems quite sad and even desperate. Animal Farm was a really interesting book that criticized communism in a very innovative way. The way the story develops and the way everything is perfectly set up made this novel one of the harshest criticisms of communism, no wonder why it was banned in Russia. Although the novel came out long after the end of Stalin's regime, George Orwell does a fantastic job of showing why communism sounds so good on paper, but he does an even better job of showing the harsh reality of how something ideally so pure can become such a dangerous system.