In Animal Farm, what was George Orwells…?
I don’t know the answers, quite, and really don’t want to get you out of doing the work for yourself. This just seems like a really long list of questions to answer, and I wonder if they’re supposed to push you into reading more and thinking about it for yourself. With that being said, though, I think of Orwell as basically an anarchist writer, although sometimes in his writings he did call himself a “socialist.” I don’t think he was all that favorable to the Marxists of his day, judging from what he wrote about them in a book called “The Road to Wigan Pier.” He came to hate Stalinism, as he showed in at least two books: “Homage to Catalonia,” about the Spanish Civil War, and “1984,” about totalitarianism. As far as how he felt about capitalism — some critics think that he decided to embrace it at the end of his life, just because he hated Stalinism and Russian Communism so much. But based on “Animal Farm,” I don’t think this is true. At the end of the book, when the Pigs who have bee
