Animal Farm's Animals

In George Orwell's Animal Farm, Orwell uses animals to represent Russian leaders and idealists after World War I. Thus, the story is not only a fairy tale, but a way to vaguely state Orwell's distrust against the Soviet Union. This allowed the book to be distributed to Russia without the authorities looking into it. Orwell characterized the animals to where one could easily detect which animal represented which Russian. Despite his personification of each farm animal, he still pays regard to the fact that they are unintelligent and unable to make certain products. This method would definitely appeal to people with very strong political views. In conclusion, Orwell's choice of characters (animals) obvioulsy attracted more readers than what the novel would if the personalities were protrayed through humans.