Animal Farm

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George Orwell once said, "What I have most wanted to do....is turn political writing into an art." What this means is that Orwell wants to take political ideas and facts and turn them into enjoyable literature. One can agree with this quote because of his novel, Animal Farm. Orwell uses many of his characters in Animal Farm to represent people or objects from the 1917 Russian Revolution.

Some characters in the novel that represented people in the 1917 Russian Revolution is Old Major, Farmer Jones, Snowball, Napoleon and many others such as Boxer and the dogs. Old Major's role compares to Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Old Major like Marx invented a form of government called Animalism which is closely related to communism. Old Major is much like Marx, they each believed workers of the world must unite and take over the government, but before they could watch this happen, they died. The working class in Russia, is compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, they were a laboring class of people that received low wages or food for their work. Old major tells the animals that the source of the problem is man. "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring fro

Literary elements and techniques Orwell uses in his novel are personification and symbolism. For example when he introduced Old Major he said, "he was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut". A pig that reminded many of Carl Marx. Another example is when he introduced Snowball and Napoleon, there he said, "Pre-eminent among the pigs were two young boats named Snowball and Napoleon... Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way. Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker speech and more attentive" George Orwell describes the animals with human like qualities. Qualities that can be compared to leaders in the Russian Revolution such as Trotsky and Stalin. Trotsky was a great speaker who wanted to improve life for the people. Stalin was not either a good speaker or as educated as Trotsky, but he was a fierce looking man. We also learned somewhat about the characters by the speeches that they give; Old Major could be seen as the leader of the animals because everyone looked up to him, and in one's thoughts he talked with power. Symbolism is also described

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Approximate Word count = 899
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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