... 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. Another major part of attitude and tone in Animal Farm is the key word in the novel. ""All men are enemies, all animals are comrades.""(p.31), ""Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four ... Zar Nicholas were Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky. In 1847 they started the communist manifesto. Karl Marx started the communist manifesto and in it he said Burgeons, the middle class, the Pr...

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... Revolution in 1917, in which the Russian people overthrew the absolute power of the tsar and attempted to rid themselves of the horrible social system which kept most 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 ... white boar, foretells a time of animal utopia. His visions are made into seven positive commandments for all animals to follow (The Commun...

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... and mismanagement of the farm. This is similar to the cause of the Russian Revolution as Russia had lost the most amount of men 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 ...

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... Old Major is a favorite of all the animals on the farm, and his speeches were to lead to the 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 Russia, as compared to the animals at the farm, were a working class that received harsh treatment ... and little income f...

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