Orwell's characters in Animal Farm symbolize Marx, Stalin, and Trotsky, the leaders of the Russian Revolution. These animals or "Manor Farm", which symbolizes Russia, overthrow their human master after years of mistreatment. It is in the pigs that the political allegory takes its most precise form (Sedley 57). Led by the pigs, the farm animals continue to do their work. Only now they do it with more pride knowing that they are working for themselves, as opposed to working for their human master, Farmer Jones. Slowly over time the pigs gain power and take advantage of the other animals. They gain so much power that they become just as power hungry and corrupt as their human master.

Using the symbolism that is in the book with similarities found in the Russian Revolution very easily shows the comparison between the animals and the Russian Leaders. The most important animals are three pigs- Old Major, Napoleon, and Snowball.

"He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic- looking pig, with wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut" (Orwell 16). Old Major is a favorite of all the animals

Before Old Major died, he gave all the farm animals hope for a new life without man. This gave Napoleon and Snowball confidence that one could bring this. He warns of an argument that must not take place, and everything that will come to take place as Napoleon leads the farm. "Your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades."(Orwell 20).

In Animal Farm, Orwell is showing the communist system of Russia as a small "Manor" farm. Orwell is interested in tracing the inevitable stages of any revolution, and he shapes his fable accordingly (Zwerdling 93). The initial overthrowing of farmer Jones is a great triumph for the animals. The greed for power leads to basically the same rules as before. The pigs and dogs see themselves as the highest animals, and take over all the power. Eventually the power corrupts them, and they turn own their fellow animals, killing anyone that is seen as a threat. This is the same thing that happened with Stalin in Russia. He murdered many of his own people, so he could remain in power.

The villain of Animal Farm, unlike those of Othello or Nineteen Eighty-Four, is always pellucidly open, often derisively s

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