Animal Farm, by George Orwell :: Animal Farm Essays

Animalism Vs. Marxism Characters, items, and events comprisein George Orwells book, Animal grow, can be compared tosimilar characters, items, and events found in Marxism andthe 1917 Russian Revolution. This comparison will besh suffer by using the symbolization that is in the book withsimilarities found in the Russian Revolution. overage major(ip) wasa prized- wild boar that belonged to granger Jones. The fact thatOld major(ip) is himself a boar was to signify that radicalchange and revolution are, themselves, boring in the eyeball ofthe proletariat ( correspond by the other barnyard sentient beings),who are more prone to worry about work and survival intheir e trulyday life. Old Major gave many speeches to the upraise animals about hope and the future. He is the mainanimal who got the insubordination started even though he diedbefore it actually began. Old Majors role compares toLenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communistrevolution. Animal Farm is a criticism o f Karl Marx, as wellas a overbold perpetuating his convictions of democraticSocialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader andteacher of the working segmentation in Russia, and their design to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major,Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to theworking order poor. The working class in Russia, ascompared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were alaboring class of people that received low wages for theirwork. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russiathought there would be no oppression in a new societybecause the working class people (or animals) would ownall the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva andGellerstein 168). Another character represented in the bookis Farmer Jones. He represents the symbol of the CzarNicholas in Russia who treated his people like Farmer Jonestreated his animals. The animal rebellion on the farm wasstarted because Farmer Jones was a drunk who never took sustainment of the animals and wh o came home one night, left thegate open and the animals rebelled. Czar Nicholas was avery weak man who treated his people similar to howFarmer Jones treated his animals. The Czar made hisworking class people very mad with the way he wielded hisauthority and preached all the time, and the people sufferedand eventually demanded reform by rebelling. The Czar saidThe law will henceforward be respected and obeyed notonly by the nation scarcely also the authority that rules it - andthat the law would stand above the changing views of the person instruments of the supreme power. (Pares 420).The animal Napoleon can be compared as a character