in George 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 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 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 Major,

book, Animal Farm, can be compared to similar characters,

because the working class people (or animals) would own

working class poor. The working class in Russia, as

fighting each other because there were no classes left. What

demands. (Clarkson 352). None of the social classes were

WORKS CITED Clarkson, Jesse. A History of Russia.

Gellerstein 80). Another item that is similar in both Animal

Napoleon. Trotsky and Stalin's relationship was very much

depressing but depended on the obligatory labor of serfs.

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