Becoming a spook, handing over lists of British marxists to the government, and writing anticommunist propaganda involving animals whose animated adaptation is funded by the CIA to own the Leninists
What I learned about this dude in school basically amounted to a hagiography
"One of the greatest writers of all time" my ass
i'd like to point out that you can't use animals as an allegory to analyse or conclude anything about any political system.
this is because animals aren't humans, and do not govern themselves in a similar or in many cases detectable fashion. indeed, many animals appear to behave in a completely random manner, such as fruit flies.
farm animals in particular are slaves to humans and even further removed from political organisation of any kind.
as wittgenstein said "if a lion could speak english, you wouldn't know it because it'd have eaten you already"
and as Thomas Nagel once said "if I were a bat I wouldn't know who to vote for".
the conclusion to this brief essay on Orwell is that he should have spent less time washing dishes and more time observing animal worker collectives, like ants or bees.
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension
Tell that to my dog. She definitely comprehends when it's time for a walk.
It is however very easy to use animals to play on pre-conceived emotions audiences have with each segment of the "animal world".
Pigs being the political class. Horses being the industrial workers. Cows or sheep being the farmers. Whatever being the artists. And so on and so forth.
I dunno it's been decades since I read the book so I've probably gotten some bits wrong but you get the idea. You can easily prey on pre-conceived emotions people associate with each animal in order to give people underlying subconscious feelings about each group.
In reality the use of animals serves to make the book appeal to a younger audience and to manipulate the feelings of the audience from the very outset.