'As a child, I was taken to see an animated film version of George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm.” Much too young to understand that I was watching an allegory about Stalinism, I assumed that Orwell was a sort of downbeat Disney, making scary kids’ cartoons featuring brutal, dictatorial pigs and overworked horses sent to slaughter.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/08/16/orwell-animal-farm-wife-biography/