Animal Farm, by George Orwell :: Animal Farm Essays

Animalism Vs. Marxism Characters, items, and events lay outin George Orwells book, Animal Farm, can be compared tosimilar characters, items, and events found in Marxism andthe 1917 Russian Revolution. This comparison will beshown by using the symbolism that is in the book withsimilarities found in the Russian Revolution. Old major wasa prized-boar that belonged to Farmer Jones. The fact thatOld Major is himself a boar was to signify that radicalchange and revolution are, themselves, boring in the eyes ofthe labor ( equal by the other barnyard animals),who are more prone to worrying about work and survival intheir everyday life. Old Major gave many speeches to the enkindle animals about hope and the future. He is the mainanimal who got the rebellion started even though he diedbefore it actually began. Old Majors government agency compares toLenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communistrevolution. Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx, as wellas a novel perpetuating h is convictions of democraticSocialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader andteacher of the running(a) class in Russia, and theirdetermination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major,Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to theworking class poor. The working class in Russia, ascompared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were alaboring class of people that received low wages for theirwork. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russiathought there would be no oppression in a new societybecause the working class people (or animals) would ownall the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva andGellerstein 168). Another character represented in the bookis Farmer Jones. He represents the symbol of the CzarNicholas in Russia who treated his people like Farmer Jonestreated his animals. The animal rebellion on the farm wasstarted because Farmer Jones was a drunk who never tookcare of the animals and who came home one night, left thegate open and the animal s rebelled. Czar Nicholas was avery untoughened man who treated his people similar to howFarmer Jones treated his animals. The Czar made hisworking class people very mad with the way he wielded hisauthority and preached all the time, and the people sufferedand finally demanded reform by rebelling. The Czar saidThe law will henceforward be respected and obeyed not merely by the nation but also the authority that rules it - andthat the law would stand above the changing views of theindividual instruments of the supreme power. (Pares 420).The animal Napoleon can be compared as a character