... a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is ... 1917-44 Russia. For example, Old Major, who invented the idea of "animalism," is seen as representing Karl Marx, the creator of communism. Snowball represents Trotsky, a Russian leader after the revol...

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... a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is ... 1917-44 Russia. For example, Old Major, who invented the idea of "animalism," is seen as representing Karl Marx, the creator of communism. Snowball represents Trotsky, a Russian leader after the revol...

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• Grade Level: High School

... a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is ... 1917-44 Russia. For example, Old Major, who invented the idea of "animalism," is seen as representing Karl Marx, the creator of communism. Snowball represents Trotsky, a Russian leader after the revol...

• Word Count: 1507
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is ... 1917-44 Russia. For example, Old Major, who invented the idea of "animalism," is seen as representing Karl Marx, the creator of communism. Snowball represents Trotsky, a Russian leader after the revol...

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• Grade Level: High School

... bad time to criticize their country. Beneath the simplicity of Animal Farm, Orwell displays the techniques Stalin used to bend the original aims of the revolution to his will. Exactly like the pig Napoleon, Stalin rose to power by eradicating his opponents. He eventually became the same tsar everyone wanted ... down Trotskyists, they themselves being lucky to get out of Spain alive.1 Animal Farm is based on events during and after the Russian Revolution in 1917, in which the Russian people overthrew the absolute power of the tsar and attempted to rid themselves of the horrible social syst...

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... and artistic purpose into one whole." Through this essay, the social and political situation presented in George Orwell's Animal Farm will thoroughly be discussed and described. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Russian Revolution began with the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in 1917. The Government was then taken over in the absence of the Czar by a group of bankers, lawyers, industrialists and capitalists ... )-and more remotely the Chinese revolutionaries of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion; Napoleon stands for Joseph Stalin; Snowball is Leon Trotsky; Mollie is at heart a White Russian with little sy...

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