Anthems in Animal Farm Anthems in Animal Farm George Orwell's 1945 allegorical novel "Animal Farm" contains various anthems adopted by the eponymous farm, most notably the original anthem "Beasts of England" and its later replacement "Comrade Napoleon". The new song "Comrade Napoleon" praises Napoleon and doesn't represent freedom at all. This change is used to show the corruption of the principles of the animals' rebellion by Animal Farm's leader Napoleon. Both "The Internationale" and "Beasts of England" reflected the principles of Marxism and Animalism, respectively. Their replacement by different anthems reflects how these ideologies were arguably distorted by Stalin and Napoleon and thus had
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