George Orwell had a sad impression of life and people! Of course, the pigs represent the kind of people that most of us try NOT to emulate represent, similarly to the dogs. My older sister read Animal Farm _in high school, but I never did, nor did I read _1984, but I have since read most of that one, and the parallels are unmistakable. If it weren't for our current president, I would say that the world represented is not the world in which I live, but I don't know now! I hope that the US does improve after two months, but we'll see, and that's my political stance of the day; I'll shut up now…