Please help with homework Animal Farm: Orwell uses a simple

Orwell uses a simple story to express complex ideas. What do you think he is trying to show us in his presentation of the pigs and how they treat the other animals, over the course of the book?

Write about:

• Orwell’s use of fable and what we usually expect to find in a fable or fairy story
• how the pigs’ behaviour contrasts with the ideals set out in Major’s speech.