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

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 hope and 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 were to lead to

the communist revolution. Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl

Marx, as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions of

democratic Socialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader

and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their

determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old

working class poor. The working class in Russia, as

arrested. Stalin's main goal was to maximize his personal

Pares, Sir Bernard. The Fall of the Russian Monarchy. New

Revolution of 1917. Farmer Jones was drunk a lot and would

living conditions were, and he could blame the destruction

their living conditions were. The Industrialists were

his opponents who always became his victims, and he had one

his secret police to do his bidding whenever he issued an

Many lessons can be learned by reading Animal Farm

forget to feed the animals on the farm. The withholding of

of the most ruthless, regimes in history. In was not till

hands and to take away land from the landowners. (Golubeva

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