What characteristics of Animal Farm are the same of those in a Fairytale?

First of all, Animal Farm has talking
animals and these animals usually have other human qualities. In fact, they are
portrayed as if they were human or as if the events they go through would be analogously
applicable to human beings. These are characterisitcs of fairy tales. It is a fable
version of the Russian Revolution. It is also a cautionary tale for any
country.

At first, fairy tales were written for adults as
much as they were written for children. The intended audience for Animal
Farm was adults but its general lesson is clear enough that children can
understand it.

Many fairy tales have morals or some lesson
guiding the narrative. This is also the case with Animal Farm. The
animal revolution begins with good intentions but Napoleon and his cohorts become
corrupt with power and end up literally and morally resembling the system of tyrants
they overthrew. So, this is one fairy tale that does not have a “fairy tale ending.”
(But fairy tales do not have to have happy
endings.)

Pan’s Labyrinth is a
contemporary example that incorporates  magic, talking animals (mythical creatures) into
an allegory of Spain in the years following the Spanish Civil War. Like Animal
Farm, this film combines fairy tale elements with cultural and historical
events.

Animal characters in fairy tales often embody one
or a few human traits. Napoleon symbolizes greed. Snowball is the intellectual. Boxer
represents loyalty and the "working class" in the allusion to the Russian
Revolution.