Animal Farm

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the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even
though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to
Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin
became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their
determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and
Marx wrote essays and gave 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. Old major tells the animals that the source of the problem is man,
they must overthrow man to abolish tyranny and hunger. Soon Old Major
does die, but his words still echo in the hearts of all the animals. With
the leadership of the pigs, the smartest animals, they repel against the
human and gain complete control of the farm. This would symbolize the
Russian Revolution.
Another parallel represented in the book ...

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