The animals and the events in Orwell’s Animal Farm represent the events transpiring up to the Russian Revolution. In HtRLLaP, Foster states that anything can be a symbol as long as it has more than one meaning, insinuating that Orwell’s book could also have symbols in them; the pig, for example, could represent the ones in power like Napoleon to Joseph Stalin. Conceit, greed, corrupt— those are the characteristic that Stalin had and those are also the attributes of Napoleon. Orwell wrote animal farm as an animal’s story to depict what was happening in the real world using the pigs, horse, sheep, etc. Orwell uses the animals to symbolize and depict the events occurring in real life, showing how those who are strong manipulate the weak.
The farmhouse, in the book, represents authority and power, but in real life, it can be viewed as a place where Stalin lives in. Only the powerful ones can …show more content…
The animals wanted everyone to be treated fairly and wanted to get rid of humans as a means to achieve it. The animals wanted freedom from the humans and equality between themselves. Orwell states, “ All animals are equal” (25). That is the seventh commandments that animals had made for themselves, which they must follow. The goal of Russia was to spread communism and ‘all animals are equal’ no matter how much or how less they work is a communist type view. Like Stalin, Napoleon believed that everyone was equal under his rule. Orwell states, “No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves” (47-80). Napoleon is the leader of the animals and he loved to tell animals what to do and he believed that under his rule, everyone is equal even though he does little to no work; likewise; Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union and decided who got to live and die, he believed that everything was equal and
The farmhouse, in the book, represents authority and power, but in real life, it can be viewed as a place where Stalin lives in. Only the powerful ones can …show more content…
The animals wanted everyone to be treated fairly and wanted to get rid of humans as a means to achieve it. The animals wanted freedom from the humans and equality between themselves. Orwell states, “ All animals are equal” (25). That is the seventh commandments that animals had made for themselves, which they must follow. The goal of Russia was to spread communism and ‘all animals are equal’ no matter how much or how less they work is a communist type view. Like Stalin, Napoleon believed that everyone was equal under his rule. Orwell states, “No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves” (47-80). Napoleon is the leader of the animals and he loved to tell animals what to do and he believed that under his rule, everyone is equal even though he does little to no work; likewise; Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union and decided who got to live and die, he believed that everything was equal and