... it was this cracking down, combined with the immobility of the nobility that doomed Czar's regime. Because of the harshness of the Mr. Jones counter-revolution, Old Major, a pig described as, "pure-bred- gives a speech in support of a great upheaval to sweep Mr. Jones and his "administration- ... his continuing verbal conflicts with Snowball and plots of his removal. Obviously a metaphor for Stalin, Comrade Napoleon represents the human frailties of any revolution. Orwell believed that although socialism is good as an ideal, it can never be successfully adopted due to uncontrollable sins...

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... direction. Written by George Orwell in 1945, Animal Farm is a political satire of a totalitarian society ruled by a mighty dictatorship, in all probability an allegory for the events surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1917. The animals of "Manor Farm" overthrow their human master after a long history of mistreatment. Led by the pigs, the farm animals continue to do their work, only with ... story represent the Russian royal family and aristocracy, tyrants who abused their power with no regard for the peasants who, in essence, supported their royal lifestyle. The pigs represent the Bo...

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