Orwell's Use of Animal Characters

Although sometimes I forgot the animals were suppose to represent an actual event involving humans, Orwell's use of animals as characters was very effective. While reading the book, the animals kept the story more interesting and easier to stay focused on. If the characters had been regular people, the book might have seemed more like reading a history lesson. This would cause the book to be harder for the readers to focus on reading.

The use of animals as characters also causes you to compare each animal character of the story to the human character of the actual event. The animals, in my mind, represented each character very well by the characteristics of the humans compared to the characteristics of the animals.