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Animal Farm

Animalism Vs. Marxism Characters, items, and events found
in George Orwells book, , 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 ...

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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. 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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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 Russians.
Napoleon ...

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