This paper is about the translation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and how political allegory and social ideology could constitute a dilemma for translators, considering the language as a principal instrument of domination. Among its most striking linguistic features are the ideological slogans repeated by the animals to simplify thought, strengthen obedience, and legitimize power. Translating these slogans is therefore not a merely lexical operation; it is a critical act that requires sensitivity to literary form, ideological function, and reader response. This article examines the translation of ideological slogans in Animal Farm from the perspective of literary criticism and translation studies, with special attention to the dilemma of equivalence. It argues that the translator must negotiate between formal equivalence, which preserves the structure and verbal shape of the original and dynamic equivalence, which seeks to reproduce the slogan’s communicative force in the target language. By combining literary analysis with translation theory, the article shows that the most effective translation strategy is often a balanced one: faithful to the slogan’s ideological role, but flexible enough to preserve its impact in the target culture.