1. Animal Farm - Characters and Political Messages
... 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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