Animal Farm Despotism

George Orwell lived to experience extraordinary events, which were both good and bad. These experiences had changed his view on politics, which led to his writings on the “Animal Farm”, wherein a communist regime rises among the animals due to the farmer’s bad treatment of the animals. The regime overtakes the farm by kicking out the owner and farmer. But short after greed grows amongst some of the pigs, which leads to the regime to change into a terrifying and manipulating totalitarian regime and dictatorship.
The author draws similarities between the “Animal Farm” and the Soviet Union under the Russian despotism in the era of Stalin. Therefore the “Animal Farm” is the tale of the Soviet Union and the corruption of a communist dictatorship. For example the expulsion of the human farm owners Mr. and Mrs. Jones and the raven Moses symbolizes the expulsion of the Tsar and the Russian orthodoxy. Hereby, the novel reveals clear themes such as totalitarianism, the power of speech and the …show more content…
Mr. Pilkington symbolizes the western world, which is satirically illustrated in the end of the story, where Napoleon and Pilkington draw the same high card during a card game. This could be a metaphor for the conflict between the US and US that rose in the post-war period after the Second World War SR (Soviet Union). By drawing the same high card, they symbolize that they both are superpowers who play (fight) against each other. On the other hand the other neighbor Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield Farm symbolizes Adolph Hitler. At first they are allies which symbolizes the Nazi-USSR pact which was a treaty of non-aggression between Germany and the USSR. But they later become enemies in the Battle of the Windmill, which symbolizes the eastern front or the so called Operation Barbarossa which was Nazi Germany’s invasion strategy against