Animal Farm: Still Relevant After 75 Years

David Mokotoff, MD
7 min readJun 24, 2020

Current events show why this political allegory is even more true today

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It has been over 50 years since I read this book in school. “Animal Farm” by George Orwell was published in 1945. The dystopian novella portrays a group of animals somewhere in England who revolt against their human masters and take over the farm. As the animals become “comrades”, their march towards a totalitarian…

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David Mokotoff, MD

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