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the old government, the last of the Czars. Orwell writes that "On a Midsummer's eve, which was Saturday, Mr. Jones went into Willingdon and got so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not come back till midday on Sunday. The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then gone out rabbitting, without bothering to feed the animals. When Mr. Jones got back he immediately went to sleep"(Orwell 17), within this quote Orwell shows how Jones runs the farm solely for profit without consideration for the animals condition. Czar Nicholas II treated the people within his country the same way Jones treated his animals, the Czar like Jones did not care for his people(in Jones' case animals) and only used them in order to improver as for himself.
Old Major is the first major character described by Orwell in Animal Farm. This "purebred" of pigs is the kind, grand fatherly philosopher of change— an obvious metaphor for Karl Marx. Old Major says "And remember comrades, your ...

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in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. The animals hated Moses because he told tales and did no work but some of them believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place."(Orwell 15-16). This is similar to the difficulty communist leaders had ridding Russia of the church.
George Orwell's Animal Farm is a political satire of a totalitarian society ruled by a mighty dictatorship, an allegory using animals as a metaphor for the events surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1917. At the beginning of the book the prize white boar, Major points out to the assembled animals that no animal in ...

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