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In The Name Of Animal A book review on Animal Farm Animal Farm (1944) was published four years before Orwell’s another book of milestone 1984 (1948) came into being. We can consider the first as the prelude to the later, for they had kept the consistency in idea against totalitarianism and of raising the awareness of the masses to fight against the implicit tyranny which was demonstrating in different forms and scales. It is not at all with ease to read this seemingly fable-like story as reading Aesop’s Fables. Indeed man is accustomed to using animals to symbolize and metaphorize the human society in one way or another. However this time, it is not about moral preach, there is no telling you an eternal truth about good and evil, but how the two were tangled and mingled until they become indistinguishable. The issue happened in Manor Farm, England where a bunch of animals were living under John the governor’s control, feeling no better or worse about their lives until one day the Old Major (the pig) ‘s dying speech aroused some of animals’ awareness to start a revolution to overthrow this irrational system. The operation and the triumph came sooner than most of them had expected and so did the “failure”. The fruit of success was also soon be usurped by the pigs who had the highest education and intelligence above all in the farm. And it is under their ruling the animals’ lives became sucker and even more suffering. It may be interesting as well as important to analyze the symbolic meaning of different characters in the book. John (the farm owner): the old, former reign system which always represents the corrupted the evilest and worst in contrast with the newly-built authority in propaganda. Later, the miserable life under John was always used as a threat and excuse to make the animals to work harder to satisfy the minor authority’s need leading by the pigs. Anyway, “John” is the one and the all the reasons for revolution. Old Mayor (the old pig): the most respect