... cruelties of the imperial system, and had distrust for a tyrannical government. He blends various components that are representative of the regimes and philosophies of Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler in his novel, 1984. This novel provides a look inside the life of a man living in a totalitarian future society ... Party (Ingsoc). Since this book was written after WWII, I feel Orwell portrays Big Brother in comparison to such historical figures as Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, who were dictators, and leaders of totalitarian societies, that had absolute, and unquestionable authority over thei...

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... can achieve. Although this achievement often comes at a terrible loss, as seen when boxer the hardest working horse is killed while building this windmill. This too can be seen in Stalin's revolution, where their industry was built up by the working class but had not thought of the human life in took. Therefore, through the windmill, inequalities because of class stratification ... where the pigs and Stalin are on top are clearly highlighted. The windmills construction highlights the development of the Communist power over the working class, and shows what this power can achieve. In Ani...

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... events in Russia during the revolution. By looking at the actions of the pigs, Orwell shows that a communist system does not work. Trotsky and Stalin can be compared to Snowball and Napoleon. "Snowball and Napoleon were by far the most active in the debates. But these two were never in ... item of debate is the windmill. Napoleon "lifted his leg, urinated over the plans"(65) and left. Napoleon is not a speaker, like Stalin. And just like Stalin, he has garnered support behind the lines. When Snowball talks he is "occasionally interrupted by bleating from the sheep"(66). Just when the ani...

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... , rather fierce looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire boar on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation of getting his own way." (Orwell 35) According to Encarta Encyclopedia Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary which is compared to Napoleon. In fact Napoleon was the only Berkshire boar on the farm and ... Stalin was the only Georgian revolutionary following Marxism under Vladimir Lenin. In comparison to the quote of Napoleon, Stalin was large and fierce looking, and would strike fear into his adversaries and patrons. Though Stalin didn't speak much, when he did his words...

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... is evident that Orwell had three main targets for his novel: the brainwashed, unknowing public during the revolution, the ruthless power hungry leader Joseph Stalin, and the bamboozling media. The sheep in Animal Farm are the brainwashed and blind supporters of the totalitarian regime that exists on the farm ... and portray the innocent public during the Bolshevik revolution. It was during this time that the media deceived the public into thinking that Joseph Stalin was like a Messiah; a supreme being, who unbeknownst to them had in fact a desire for power and control so great he"d sacri...

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... of subjugation. Equally important, one needs to highlight the parallelism between events in this fable and the political and social situation in the Soviet Union under the reign of Joseph Stalin. The latter, in effect, sought to maintain the masses' fervent adherence to his regime. Through his narrative, Orwell emphasizes the similarities between the animal farm and Russia in ... the 20 century to unveil the duplicity of both the fictional leader Napoleon and the historical leader Stalin. They both opted for propagating a certain ideology to protect their authority from any public devia...

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... within Oceania. Big Brother and Nineteen Eighty-Four are a representation of the governments ruling Russia, Italy, and Germany. During the time Nineteen Eighty-Four was being written, Joseph Stalin was ruling Russia. Stalin ruled Russia as a dictator from nineteen twenty-two until nineteen fifty-three. Italy was currently being ruled by Benito Mussolini (nineteen twenty- two until nineteen forty-three). Mussolini was ... the principles of National Socialism, had already used the fact of faking the history. Russia and Italy also had the same kind of social control presented in Nineteen E...

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... by corresponding events in the novel to the actual events in Russian history. During the Russian revolution, Russian leader Joseph Stalin used secret police to 'get rid' of anyone who threatened his power. This is in fact also what happened to Stalin's main rival, Leon Trotsky. The actions that took place are portrayed similarly in "Animal Farm," as Napoleon ... used his dogs to chase Snowball from the farm. In this case, Napoleon's guard dogs represent Stalin's secret police. Stalin/Napoleon viewed Trotsky/Snowball as a threat, he was scared that Trotsky/Snowball might try to stea...

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... can be drawn between the IngSoc party and between governments of both the past and present. It is no coincidence that 1984 was written when Joseph Stalin's Socialist government was at its peak. The government in 1984, IngSoc, stands for English Socialism while the giant posters of Big Brother are very similar to ... those of Stalin. Socialism is a society in which equality and systematic order are the ideals. In 1984 everyone is equal, and like socialism their success is measured on ... their work not on their possessions. Both Big Brother and Stalin are similar in how they govern their...

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... characters of the farm have a special role in Russian Revolution. The farm itself represents Russia, with its poor conditions and unjust leaders. Napoleon resembles the mad dictator known as Joseph Stalin, and Snowball, who was betrayed by Napoleon and banished from the farm (Russia), is an allegory of Trotsky. Old Major could be easily matched with Karl Marx, who is responsible ... play certain parts in the parallel; Boxer as the working class, Molly as White Russia (those who fled Russia), and Napoleons three vicious dogs as the secret police of Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). The statement...

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... Lenin had started. Napoleon was a selfish and greedy pig. He did not want to share the power or the decision-making with any other individual. This was the same for Stalin. At first Napoleon and Snowball shared the decision-making and had debates about what course of action they would take. This worked for a while but Napoleon grew weary of long ... forced Snowball out of the farm and started to spread lies about Snowball to get the entire farm against him. Stalin did the same thing against Trotsky and forced Trotsky into hiding into Mexico, where he was eventually assassinated. Both St...

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... characters of the farm have a special role in Russian Revolution. The farm itself represents Russia, with its poor conditions and unjust leaders. Napoleon resembles the mad dictator known as Joseph Stalin, and Snowball, who was betrayed by Napoleon and banished from the farm (Russia), is an allegory of Trotsky. Old Major could be easily matched with Karl Marx, who is responsible ... parts in the parallel; Boxer as the working class, Molly as White Russia (those who fled Russia), and Napoleon's three vicious dogs are characters of the secret police of Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). The statem...

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... and what is in them. In Animal Farm, George Orwell includes two noticeable allusions. When Orwell has the animals create the principles of animalism, he is referencing the way Joseph Stalin created the principles of communism. Another example of an allusion in Animal Farm is when Napoleon makes a deal to sell the Fredrick farm a lot of timber for a large amount of ... Fredrick farm, Napoleon figures out the bank notes were forgeries. "The bank notes were forgeries! Fredrick had got the timber for nothing!" (106) Adolf Hitler lied to Joseph Stalin (like Fredrick lied to Napoleon) when he...

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... struggle, and it is only so long until a new totalitarian government is established. The struggle for power between Napoleon and Snowball represents the same struggle between Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin. In both the historical and fictional cases, the romantic but less powerful figure (Snowball and Trotsky) is excluded from the revolutionary state by the malicious and violent and violent upheaval ... of power (Napoleon and Stalin). Snowball emerges as a keen idealist who throws himself into the attempt to spread Animalism worldwide and help the infrastructure of the farm. Napoleon bei...

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... and impose their totalitarian views upon the citizens. Throughout history, we have been aware of the presence of totalitarian states such as: Nazi Germany under Hitler, the Soviet Union under Stalin, Fascist Italy under Mussolini, and the People's Republic of China under Zedong. Despite the differences amid totalitarian states, there are several characteristics that they have in common, the two most ... to be entirely dependant upon the party and the leader of the party. In Germany, Hitler led members of the National Socialist group, also known as the Nazis. Zedong and Stalin led the co...

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... aside their own personal goals for the benefit of society. Throughout history their have been numerous examples of the violence, exploitation and propaganda associated with totalitarian systems. For instance, Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Adolph Hitler in Germany and the list goes on. These dictators prospered in increasing their countries overall wealth with regards to international ... standards, but the individual citizens suffered immensely in the process. People went hungry the Soviet Union although Stalin's five year plan resulted in the largest harvest e...

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... . I do believe it to be exaggerated and slanted though. Orwell had lived through both world wars and had seen some of Linen and Stalin's rule in Russia. I honestly can not believe all totalitarian societies are as bad as Stalin's rule or Hitler's Nazi Germany. I can believe some such societies can truly be benevolent in nature. Orwell instead focuses on this one side ... ...

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... revolution the proles in Russia suffer from poverty and the pressure of the Czar on the society while the Czar and his family lived in luxury. A group of people, Lenin, Stalin and his friends provocated the proles with the ideology o communism. The believed the lies of equality and a better standards of life so that the Czar was overthrown and ... Stalin and his communist party got the authority. However the became even more tyrannical and despotic on the proles. As a result the totalitarian regime of communism took place of the monarchy. ... ...

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... to fail. Napoleon and Snowball take over after the death of Old Major and twist his socialist plight into their own system of government. Napoleon is an obvious metaphor for Stalin and represents the flaw in the rebellion. He starts out as a good ruler but is soon corrupted by greed and power. His true character can be seen when he murders ... the animals would have seen what was really happening on the farm. He can also represent the newspapers in Russia that were controlled by the government during the time of Stalin's rule. Boxer represents the lower class in Russian society. He is u...

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... severe. The author uses the government of Oceania as a possible extreme as to how far our governments will go. Such example of this is the Communist rule of Stalin in the USSR, Stalin used many of the same tactics as Big Brother did. This goes to show that Orwell is very correct in his explanation of how the nature of our reality ... ...

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... of Animal Farm follows the Russian Revolution. This is achieved by events in the novel corresponding to the actual events in Russian history. In the year 1937, Russian leader Joseph Stalin used secret police to get rid of rivals including his main rival, Leon Trotsky. Napolean uses his dogs to chase Snowball from Animal Farm. Napolean's guard dogs represent ... Stalin's secret police. Another example is when the animals start to rebuild the windmill and "starvation seemed to stare them in the face." Russia suffered a similar fate resulting in a famine. Animal ... ...

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... wrote it after witnessing how Totalitarian governments (i.e. Russia) would go as far to go to attain and gain more power. Re writing history was what was done in Russia when Stalin was in Power as many other government controlled methods mention in 1984. Now the world has not yet, reached this states of total government control but it seems like it ... ...

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... to the Russian rebellion during WWI. Mr. Jones represents Tsar Romanov, the animals are the rebels, and the pigs are the new government with people like John Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. In the book, society is divided into two social classes; the pigs and the rest, and this contributes greatly to the way their utopian vision turned into a dystopia with slaves ... ...

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... those characters great depth and an aristocratic air. He also portrays the working animals quite well into the role of peasants and factory workers because, as in the USSR under Stalin, they are uneducated and brainwashed. However, this also points out that dictators have absolute power over their own rules and keep it like that by keeping low education in their ... ...

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... the idea of "animalism," is seen as representing Karl Marx, the creator of communism. Snowball represents Trotsky, a Russian leader after the revolution. He was driven out by Napoleon, who represents Stalin, the most powerful figure in the country. Napoleon then proceeded to remove the freedoms of the animals, and established a dictatorship, under the public veil of "animalism." Pigs represent the ruling ... ...

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