After Reading

I wonder what happened after the events that transpired in Animal Farm. I'm sure that if the sequel continued to reflect real-world events, manor farm would have become a better place in the end, although the government of the farm would likely be seeded with corruption (as modern Russia is today). However, someone like George Orwell wouldn't write a sequel. The book was designed to make us think. About the fate of Animal Farm and it's inhabitants, and it was certainly designed to make the average person in the 1940's and 50's think about their fate. In my opinion, the future for the animals looked bleak (even though Russia would become more democratic). The pigs were firmly in charge, the animals were slaving away and the farm's residents were extremely unintelligent. The only ones with great power (the horses) were very stupid and followed the orders of the pigs unquestioningly. The other animals were the same, with the exception of Old Benjamin the donkey. It seems like him and Clover and the oppressive pigs were the only ones at the end of the book who even had an inkling of what true freedom was like.