Animal Farm & Homage to Catalonia

The grand theme of Animal Farm has to do with the capacity for ordinary individuals to continue to believe in a revolution that has been utterly betrayed. Orwell attempts to reveal how those in power-Napoleon and his fellow pigs-pervert the democratic promise of the revolution. Animal Farm known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule. Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's memoir of his experience as a volunteer soldier with the Marxist party POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista) during the Spanish Civil War. Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War.