What does this mean in the most simpleiest form possiable?

Question

the surface Animal Farm is a simple fable, but Orwell’s purpose is much more serious than it would seem at first glance. Discuss how Orwell tries to avert disaster through his allegory.

Or please answer this in a WHOLE page or more please. School starts tommrrow please or give me things from the book to go on, i can go from there, please.

Answer 1

Orwell's "Animal Farm" is an allegory of the Russian Revolution.  The characters in the book represent real people.

The animals are working class people, whilst the people are upper class (i.e. capitalist).  The pigs are members of the Bolshevik party, the other animals their initial supporters.

Old Major could be either Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin (I personally think it's the former).

Napoleon is Joseph Stalin (the name is significant because Napoleon was also a dictator who claimed to profess progressive views).

Snowball is Leon Trotsky who was Stalin's opponent after Lenin's death.  He was exiled in 1929 and slandered by Moscow as a "traitor" until he was murdered by a Stalinist agent in 1940.

It's been a while since I've read the book but in my view Orwell avoided it becoming "silly" and "childish" (it's a book about talking animals after all!) by the sheer heartbreak you feel for some of the characters.  Also, the real life influences are quite obvious - and would have been very obvious to the intellectuals of that time.

The book has been interpreted by some as having as its purpose proving that socialism/communism doesn't work.  But I think that this is erroneous as Orwell himself was a socialist.

Anyway, good luck, hope this helps.