... in the novel to represent human beings or Mr. Jones. Another literary figure of speech that is used in the novel a lot is analogy. George Orwell is constantly comparing the communist and communist state, which is an analogy. Diction, language, and imagery are a major part of the literary analysis in Animal Farm. Tone and attitude are two things that are important in ... a lot of personification in this novel. Almost every character is a representation of an authority figure in Europe at that time. For example Boxer was a representation of the Proletarians during the communist manifesto....

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• Grade Level: High School

... by George Orwell in 1946, uses the personification of animals to tell the story of the Russian Revolution. The embodiment of a communist revolution, the Russian Revolution first raised hopes for revolutionary ideas of liberty, fraternity, and equality; then it cruelly shatters them. Even ... of the population in poverty. There were many different revolutionary groups, most following the writings of Karl Marx (1818-1883), the author of the Communist Manifesto. As soon as the tsar was overthrown, civil war broke out among the revolutionaries. The Bolsheviks, lead by Lenin (1870-1924) and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... during World War 1. The story tells us the abandonment of a leader to their people or in this case to their animals. Old Major represents Karl Marx who instigates the Communist manifesto. In the story, Old Major which instigates rebellion of Animalism with the manifesto "the life of an animal is misery and slavery" (Chapter 1, page 3) this is the same to the ... manifesto in with Karl Marx uses to instigate Communism. When the animals overrun Farmer Jones, the pigs volunteer to become the leaders of the farm with is the start of Animalism ... ...

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... animal revolution. Old Major can be easily compared to Karl Marx and Lenin, whose ideas and speeches led to the communist revolution. Major's speech is an accurate exposition of orthodox Marxism and is very similar to the last paragraph of the Communist Manifesto (Meyers 105). Like Old Major, Marx and Lenin gave speeches to the hard working and poor. The working class of ... . Never had the farm animals worked with such elan for Mr. Jones as they now work, so they believe, for themselves (Greene 36) In Animal Farm, Orwell is showing the communist system of Russia as a small "Manor" farm....

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• Grade Level: High School