... uses symbolism to compare his characters to religion and the founders of the revolution, propaganda and the working class, and the leaders after the rebellions, to allow the readers to understand the history of the Russian Revolution. A raven and a pig symbolize religion and leaders of the Russian Revolution. Old Major was the inventor of Animalism and could be compared to the inventors of Communism named Marx and Lenin. Old ... Squealer is a pig who symbolized with the propaganda of the Russian Revolution called PRAVDA. Both lied to their followers to make them not rebel against their ...

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... beings, and then tells how they become the equivalent of the Russian government by trying to take over the farm in a Communistic fashion. The similarity between the book and the Russian Revolution can be shown in three major points: the symbolism behind the characters, the correspondence of events, and the usage of information censorship. To begin with, the symbols the characters represent are either prominent groups or people ... represents the dedicated "proletariat," Karl Marx's term for the unskilled labor class (Definitions of Communism). The second similarity between the book and ...

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• Grade Level: High School