Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes Of George Orwell
Throughout history, writers have written about many different
subjects based on their personal experiences. George Orwell was the pen
name of Eric Blair. He is one of the most famous political satirists of
the twentieth century. He was born in Bengal, India in 1903 to an English
Civil Servant and died in 1950. He attended Eton from 1917 to 1921, and
served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927 before
moving to Europe.Two of his most famous books, Animal Farm, written in 1946,
and Nineteen Eighty-Four, written in 1949, were written about the political
and social environment surrounding his life. "The driving force behind his
two satires is an intense revulsion ...
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Fascism, and Totalitarianism, and by
the revolts, wars, and revolutions going on in Europe and Russia at the
time of his writings.
George Orwell was a Socialist2 himself, and he despised Russian
Communism3, and what it stood for. Orwell shows this hatred towards
Communist Russia in a letter he wrote to Victor Gollancz saying, "For quite
fifteen years I have regarded that regime with plain horror."4 Orwell
wrote this letter in 1947, ten years after announcing his dislike of
Communism. However, he had thought a great deal about Communism and what
he disliked about if for a long time before he announced it to the public.
Orwell "did not expect anything good from the Communist"5 and therefore
Communism personally did not affect him, but "He was concerned with it
(Communism) only because it was a problem for others."6
In Animal Farm, "an animal fable satirizing Communism,"7 Orwell
uses farm animals in England to satirize Russian Communism and its leaders.
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command, says,"Do you not remember
how, just at the moment when Jones and his men had got inside the yard,
Snowball suddenly turned and fled...that it was just at that moment when
panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang
forward with a cry of Death to Humanity!'"10 Just as Squealer retold the
event to Napoleon's benefit,the same thing can be said about Stalin. After
he "became dictator of the Soviet Union, he had history books rewritten to
say that he had led the revolution with Lenin."11 This however is not the
truth. In reality, it was Leon Trotsky who led the revolution with Lenin.
This is just one of the many comparisons that Orwell makes between ...
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