The Parallels of Animal Farm and the Bolsheviks
George Orwell's Animal Farm is a novel about animals overthrowing the farm, much like the Bolsheviks overthrowing the Czar. The new leaders, the pigs, promise a better life if the follow them, like Marx's communist ideas of a better society. The ideals of the pig's promises never come to be and the animals suffer worse, Stalin promised the ideals of communism, but they never materialize. Stalin, the corrupt one, gains control of the Russian government and makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. Similarly, Napoleon takes control of the pigs and corrupts the animal's government, then in turn makes the other animals suffer. Through the use of characterization, plot, and theme in George Orwell's Animal Farm historical parallels to the Russian Revolution are revealed. The use of characterization is very extensive in this novel, by using fictional characters to mock the real life people involved with the revolution. Barnyard animals, other than the pigs, represent the Bolsheviks, Not really knowing what they are doing but following because they don't like how the live now. Farmer Jones is much like the Czar Nicholas II being negligent of the animal
Taking in all of these strange parallels, one can begin to see what George Orwell had in mind when he wrote this novel. The likely hood of these parallels being some odd coincidence and not deliberate, and he just wrote and thought it would be interesting entertainment that animals take over a farm and set up there own government similar to the way the Russian Revolution is very slim (Smyer 13). The parallels are so closely similar to the actual real life happenings that any doubt of its purpose of mocking the Russian Revolution is cast off (Bloom 97). These parallels are shown through Orwell's use of his characters, the execution of the plot, and basis meaning of the story(Smyer 13). The plot of the novel is almost as important as the characterization aspect of the novel. The way Old Major explains the situation and his vision of the future is sort of like Marx's ideas of communism, they get rid of the greedy upper class and work for themselves to provide a better life for themselves. They even have there own version of the Russian hammer and sickle flag. Like all situations there is a good guy and a bad guy, after Old Major dies and after the revo
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