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That sounds like the album is using the allegories from George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
by eric-hu 4y ago
That sounds like the album is using the allegories from George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
- SturgeonsLaw 4y agoYep, Animal Farm absolutely was an influence on that album https://www.openculture.com/2017/04/pink-floyd-adapts-orwells-animal-farm-into-its-1977-concept-album-animals.html https://www.openculture.com/2017/04/pink-floyd-adapts-orwell... > Orwell showed the effects of “undemocratic structures” by reducing individuals to animal types, and so does Waters, simplifying the classes further into three (and leaving out humans altogether): the ruling pigs, praetorian and aspiring capitalist dogs, and the sheep, the mindless masses.