Benjamin (Animal Farm) simply flees Napoleon's unendurable regime with some of the other animals. (Neither event occurs in the book.) Benjamin (Animal Farm) Benjamin is a donkey in George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm". He is also the oldest of all the animals (he is alive in the last scene of the novel). He is less straightforward than most characters in the novel, and a number of interpretations have been put forward to which social class he represents as regards to the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. ("Animal Farm" is an allegory for the evolution of Communism in Russia, with each animal representing
Animal Farm (song) she's far from home," but in his fantasy on animal farm, "she's by [his] side." The singer then offers to "take [her] where real animals are playing," "on Animal Farm." When talking about "Animal Farm", Ray Davies said, "This was just me thinking everybody else's mad and we are all animals anyway - which is really the idea of the whole album."<ref name="33 and 1/3"></ref> "Animal Farm" has a folk feel, similarly to many other tracks on "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society". Andy Miller wrote in his book, 33 and 1/3 book "Kinks' The Kinks Are the