George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm, presents how a perfect utopia can be ruined by an individual who wants power. Power can corrupt your mind. In this story the animals wanted freedom but the pigs took all the power. This book represents the Industrialization of Soviet Russia. The Animals before they fought for freedom were treated poorly and were not fed by the Farmer Jones. Farmer Jones , treating the animals badly, started a revolution for freedom for the animals. In Animal Farm the humans treat the animals badly and starts a revolution for the animals taking control for themselves. In the beginning of Animal Farm, Farmer Jones was in charge of the farm and was a dunk and did not treat the Animals …show more content…
Industrialization of Soviet Russia represents the rise and fall of the soviet union. The Pigs represents the leaders of the soviet union. Napoleon represents stalin, one of the major leaders of the soviet union. Then there was Snowball, he represents Leon trotsky and he challenges Stalin and gets kicked out the country of Russia. Squealer represents one of the largest newspapers in Russia called “Nprabta” a newspaper that would spread lies to the people of Russia. Old Major was representing two people, number one was karl Marx, a threaterist. Number two was the vallatenmen lenen, the one who had the idea of starting the union. The first attack when the animals kicked farmer Jones out of the manor Farm represented the Bolshevik revolution of 1912 and the second battle when the Farmer Jones and his boys tried to come back and take back the farm but the animals still defeated them was the Russian Civil war.
You may be wondering why the author of Animal Farm, George Orwell changed the story from The Soviet Union to Animals well the man Karl Marx had a quote in his old notes, “The worker in his human functions no longer feels himself to be anything but animal. What is human becomes animal and what is animal becomes human” . And that is probably one of the main reasons this author named the book Animal Farm and wrote the book about Animals. This book has definitely taught me