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Animal Farm: Animalism Vs. Marxism - Term Papers

Animal Farm: Animalism Vs. Marxism



Characters, items, and events found in George Orwells book, Animal Farm,
can be compared to similar characters, items, and events found in Marxism and
the 1917 Russian Revolution. This comparison will be shown by using the
symbolism that is in the book with similarities found in the Russian Revolution.

Old Major was a prized-boar that belonged to Farmer Jones. The fact
that Old Major is himself a boar was to signify that radical change and
revolution are, themselves, boring in the eyes of the proletariat (represented
by the other barnyard animals), who are more prone to worrying about work and
survival in their everyday life. Old Major gave many speeches to the farm
animals about ...

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speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared
with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that
received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the
people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because
the working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the
power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168).
Another character represented in the book is Farmer Jones. He
represents the symbol of the Czar Nicholas in Russia who treated his people
like Farmer Jones treated his animals. The animal rebellion on the farm was
started because Farmer Jones was a drunk who never took care of the animals and
who came home one night, left the gate open and the animals rebelled. Czar
Nicholas was a very weak man who treated his people similar to how Farmer Jones
treated his animals. The Czar made his working class people very mad with the
way he wielded ...

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was not very beneficial. All the other animals liked him, but
he was outsmarted by Napoleon. Trotsky and Stalin's relationship was very much
like Snowball's and Napoleons. Trotsky organized the Red Army and gave speeches
and everyone in Russia thought he would win power over Stalin. After Lenin's
death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist
party. He was at one time considered the second most powerful man in Russia.
(Trotsky” Comptons 290).
Besides characters there are many items that can be compared as symbols
in the book and in Russia. The whip that Napoleon used in the farmyard to
wield power can be compared to the power that Stalin used on the ...

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