Communism In George Orwell's Animal Farm

or dictatorship one person has the power in a society and all the rest serve only to obey him.

Elie Wiesel in Night and Snowball from Animal Farm are very similar characters because they were victimized by tyrants and used as scapegoats, but they are also unique and individual characters because Elie knew he was being taken advantage of and Snowball did not. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell, and it is about a farm of animals that take over the farm. Napoleon, a large pig, slowly takes away food and supplies from the other animals until he starts walking on two feet and becomes a “human.” Because of him Snowball is expelled from the farm and acts as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong on the farm. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel, and in it Elie tells the story of he was taken from his home and put into a concentration camp under the control of Adolf Hitler.

believing it is for the good of all his comrades, when it is only the

Dystopian Fiction and Marxist Connection: George Orwell’s Animal Farm as a critique of Bourgeoisie- Proletariat Relation and How Tyranny Operates

In the story Animal Farm, Orwell uses both symbolism and communism to closely relate to the Russian Revolution. Orwell inscribes characters in the book such as Snowball and Napoleon to show what the Russian Revolution truly is. She also closely relates them to leaders involved in the revolution. Without Orwell's use of symbolism and communism in the story, readers wouldn't get a good understanding of what the Russian Revolution truly was.

People respond to control and power differently for various reasons, however, one of the main reasons is based on their personality; their confidence and intelligence. In, Animal Farm by George Orwell, confidence and intelligence is a big factor for why certain animals obtained power and control and why other ones did not. People with confidence and intelligence are likely to gain most of the control and power. People with little intelligence, but lots of confidence are more likely to have some power or work underneath the leader. People with intelligence, but no confidence seem to have no power at all and shy away from it. Both intelligence and confidence are needed for someone to take total power. Therefore, the amount of confidence and intelligence a person has will decide how they respond to control and power.

George Orwell is the author of the novel, Animal Farm, which is an allegory for the Russian Revolution. An allegory is a story that uses characters or events to represent ideas. Animal Farm can be read as a fable of talking animals, or as a history book. Animal farm is full of information, you just need to reach out for it. Orwell wrote this to tell people the effects of communism and how it affected the Russian people. This event was a huge movement in the history of Russian society; and the first step in creating communism in Russia. George Orwell’s Animal Farm was a satirical allegory, presented in the form of a fable, which was meant to criticize and

George Orwell grew up with Communism growing all around him. He watched the negative effects Communism on the world, and he wanted to do something about it. To show the evils of communism to a world that was embracing it, George Orwell wrote his famous novel, Animal Farm. Because much of the world was converting so quickly to Communism, George Orwell used symbolism to show his thoughts. George Orwell’s Animal Farm uses symbolism to demonstrate communism and this is best shown in three areas.

INTRODUCTION In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the allegorical representation of a communist society allows the audience to question the ethicality and effectiveness of communism. However, as the book progresses, Orwell depicts various consequences of a communist rule, including corruption, inequality, and inefficiency, although he never explicitly states these as reasons for the failure of this society, allowing the question of “why does communism fail?” to arise.

Communism At Its Finest "No question now what has happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which”(118). What is the point of becoming different when different is like everyone else? Animal Farm, “written by George Orwell,” is a theatrical allusion to the Russian revolution in the early 1900s. The story follows with the sparking of communism or “Animalism” and the animals take over the farm with the intent of being united and self sufficient.

The theory of communism is that everyone is equal, but that means that there is no leader, everyone recieves the same exact education, rations, and equality among everyone. Unfortunately, that is not possible in today's society. That is seen in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. He demonstrates that education is a powerful weapon and is a tool that can be used to a person's advantage. Education is knowing the world around you, every letter in the alphabet, counting from 1 to infiniti.

The pigs appear as “... [having] superior knowledge [they feel] it [is] natural that they should assume the leadership” (Orwell 29) on the farm. The pigs directly represent the communist leaders such as Marx, Lenin and other harsh dictators that make up a communist society. The pigs create the commandments that “...would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live” (Orwell 24). Since the pigs are of higher intelligence they are able to sway other animals on Animal Farm to give into what they want and paint a better, rounded picture which makes communism seem like a great choice. They then are able to create rules to manipulate the system in their favor by saying: “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS” (Orwell

Have you ever noticed that there are recurring themes within novels, plays, essays, history and so on? Such as how a civil rights novel typically covers how the God given rights for African-Americans was denied by racist white man as the United States was developing. While in the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin had an iron grip over the Russians and used the idea of Communism for his personal benefit. These two examples are very different, yet the same, both take place in different countries, however, their people are being denied their own rights. What tends to happen in a situation like this?

The main aim of Marxism is to bring about a classless society, and ‘Animal Farm’ is generally considered to be a Marxist novel, as all its characters share a similar ambition at the beginning. ‘Animal Farm’ represents an example of the oppressed masses rising up to form their own classless society, whilst offering a subtle critique on Stalin’s Soviet Russia, and communism in general. Orwell is, ironically, revolutionary in his work, as contextually in 1945, communism was a ‘taboo’ subject, punishable in post-war America by arrest and even death. It is clear from the political references in ‘Animal Farm’, that Orwell considered Russia, and consequently communism as a

Charlie Chaplin wrote a speech in the 1940s that said “The hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish.” (Charlie Chaplin). During that time, Joseph Stalin was governing the Soviet Union as a dictator from the mid-1920s until Stalin perished in 1953 from a stroke. While he was governing he turned the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial and military society. His goal as a dictator was to turn everyone toward communism and everyone thought it was fair and a good idea. As a ruler he did not like it when people spoke against him and if they did not agree with him he would send his secret police after them to kill them. “From 1934 to 1940 Stalin had vast numbers of government, party and army officials murdered to satisfy his paranoid delusions that everyone was out to get him” (Joseph Stalin). Since he did this, his army ended up getting weaker instead of stronger. George Orwell wrote the allegorical novel Animal Farm in 1944, which was during the same time of world war two. Orwell uses an analogy relating Animal Farm to the Soviet Union by having the animals symbolize the events and people during the time when Stalin was a dictator.