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) Animal Farm (song) "Animal Farm" is the first track on the second side of the Kinks' 1968 album, "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society". The track was written by the Kinks' main songwriter, Ray Davies. The lyrics of "Animal Farm" visit an escapism theme (one that would be returned to in "Apeman" and "Supersonic Rocket Ship"), with the singer wanting to flee to "where real animals are playing." He yearns "to be back there, among the cats and dogs and the pigs and the goats on Animal Farm, [his] animal home." The singer dreams of his girlfriend, "though