The critically acclaimed and widely controversial novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory (or fable) about a farm and its animals revolting against their cruel owner and becoming their own independent farm as free and equal animals. The characters and actions represent Communist Russia allegorically to provide a further understanding of the history. Several animals played a large role in the novel, such as, Snowball, Napoleon and Boxer, who represent Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Communist Russia’s working class. First, we have Snowball. Snowball is one of the leaders at the beginning of the revolution and his real-life counterpart is Leon Trotsky. The two share very similar traits and readers can easily identify Snowball as Trotsky, “At the meetings, Snowball
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Stalin and Napoleon both share very similar personalities as Stalin was said to be a “cold and unaffectionate man” much like Napoleon is depicted in the novel, “… was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker but with a reputation for getting his own way,” (9). Stalin and Napoleon commit horrible acts to their citizens / fellow farm animals. Under Stalin’s rule an estimated 26 million deaths were directly and indirectly his responsibility. Orwell uses the rebellion of the hens to illustrate the mass forced-farmers famine, “Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. He ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death,” (51) in comparison to the Soviets sealing off the boarders of Ukraine preventing any food from entering the country, killing an estimated 6-7 million people. The many heinous acts Napoleon commits throughout the novel are similar to Stalin’s, both of these cruel and brutal personalities succeeded in abusing
Stalin and Napoleon both share very similar personalities as Stalin was said to be a “cold and unaffectionate man” much like Napoleon is depicted in the novel, “… was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker but with a reputation for getting his own way,” (9). Stalin and Napoleon commit horrible acts to their citizens / fellow farm animals. Under Stalin’s rule an estimated 26 million deaths were directly and indirectly his responsibility. Orwell uses the rebellion of the hens to illustrate the mass forced-farmers famine, “Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. He ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death,” (51) in comparison to the Soviets sealing off the boarders of Ukraine preventing any food from entering the country, killing an estimated 6-7 million people. The many heinous acts Napoleon commits throughout the novel are similar to Stalin’s, both of these cruel and brutal personalities succeeded in abusing