...Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution The years of leading up to the Russian revolution were bleak for the Russian population. Russians were poor, starving, and fed up with the Tsar. The revolution began with the ideas of Lenin, which carried on to Trotsky and ultimately Stalin, who completely changed Russia. The resemblance between these three leaders of the Russian revolution and the three leaders of Animal Farm, Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon, shows that the movie Animal Farm is an allegory to the Russian Revolution. Old Major, the original leader of Animal Farm, closely resembles Lenin. The most notable similarity is that both Old Major and Lenin are both the original leaders and they both place the idea of revolution into the minds of their followers. Besides the fact that they are the original leaders of their revolutions, Lenin and Old Major share the common ideas of freedom and equality as well. They are also avid believers in the ideas of Karl Marx, who had written about the bourgeois rebelling against the proletariat. Lenin uses the ideas of Karl Marx to encourage the poor and famished workers in Russia to revolt. He promised them peace, land, and bread which are three things the Russians did not have. As a result, Lenin is able to overthrow the tsar and make a socialist government where everyone is equal and everything is owned by the state. Old Major does something similar by convincing the farm animals that removing the humans, who are essentially the proletariat...
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...“great” leader is fat and happy. The idea of having complete power was well thought out by the pigs,especially Old Major, who thought of the rebellion and was the only reason that it was possible. Once Old Major passed, Napoleon and Snowball accumulated all the power from him and the decisions for the animals, they even successfully rebelled against the humans. The pigs started preaching equality for before the animals rebelled against Mr. Jones and his men....
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...who are. The book Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegorical fiction reflecting events leading up to the Russian Revolution, and Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Some of the leaders in the book Animal Farm, emulate this quote by using certain tactics to disrupt normalcy to advance their own personal agendas and interests. Exceptional leadership was demonstrated initially when a goal was set for the group of animals to obtain together, but was later dismantled as self absorbed leaders rose to power. As new leaders...
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...Animal Farm Animal Farm, a satirical book by George Orwell, compares the life of farm animals to the lives of people living under fascist regimes. Many of the animals, who are characters in the book, directly parallel individuals or groups in fascist Italy and Germany or in the communist Soviet Union. Following the example of the real world, the animals wish to change the negative conditions of their lives, but instead create a new, even worse regime lead by the very animals who they trusted. This regime, lead by the pigs, controls the other animals of the farm with an iron fist. The animals of the farm are inspired to revolt after listening to the words of Old Major, a well respected pig. Old Major is also an allegory for both Vladimir Lenin...
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...benefits both you and the people with whom you are communicating. The book ‘Animal Farm’, by George Orwell, illustrates different types of communication between the animals and humans and shows the parallels that exist in business communication. In Chapter 1 of Animal Farm, Old Major, the white Boar, gathered all the animals in the barn to talk to them about his dream and his thoughts. He was highly regarded on the farm and communicated effectively to all the different animals and greatly grasped their attention. All the animals had respect for Old Major as he was seen as the leader of the animal farm. As the animals listen raptly, Old Major delivers up the fruits of his years of quiet contemplation in his stall. Old Major relates a dream that he had the previous night, of a world in which animals live without the tyranny of men: they are free, happy, well fed, and treated with dignity. He urges the animals to do everything they can to make this dream a reality and exhorts them to overthrow the humans who purport to own them. A brief conversation arises in which the animals debate the status of rats as comrades. Major then provides a precept that will allow the animals to determine who their comrades are: creatures that walk on two legs are enemies; those with four legs or with wings are allies. He reminds his audience that the ways of man are completely corrupt: once the humans have been defeated, the animals must never adopt any of their habits; they must not live in a house, sleep...
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...George Orwell’s, first highly successful novel, Animal Farm, was published on the heels of World War II. Orwell wrote the book during the war as a cautionary fable in order to expose the seriousness of the dangers posed by Stalinism and totalitarian government. In Orwell’s novel he portrays many World War II leaders through the animals on the farm (GradeSaver 1). In the beginning of the book the readers find out that Mr. Jones, the farm owner is a drunk and does not remember to care for the animals. Then the readers find out that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had a strange dream that the animals take over the farm a live without humans. Napoleon, a large rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, is one of the few animals that Orwell uses to portray the leaders from World War II (Animal Farm 35). Throughout the chapters of the novel, Napoleon slowly gains control over the farm by letting Snowball organize things, by helping with little things, and by finally chasing Snowball off the farm. Napoleon slowly takes control over the farm by sitting back at letting Snowball organize things after old Major dies. Shortly after old Major died the animals chased Mr. Jones off the farm. They then burned anything and everything that led them back to Mr. Jones. The next day, after all the animals had woke up, they held a meeting. Snowball says, “Comrades, today we begin the hay harvest. Now comrades, to the hay field!” (Animal Farm 42-43). This is an example of Napoleon letting...
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...The story takes place on a farm somewhere in England. The story is told by an all-knowing narrator in the third person. The action of this novel starts when the oldest pig on the farm, Old Major, calls all animals to a secret meeting. He tells them about his dream of a revolution against the cruel Mr Jones. Three days later Major dies, but the speech gives the more intelligent animals a new outlook on life. The pigs, who are considered the most intelligent animals, instruct the other ones. During the period of preparation two pigs distinguish themselves, Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon is big, and although he isn't a good speaker, he can assert himself. Snowball is a better speaker, he has a lot of ideas and he is very vivid. Together with another pig called Squealer, who is a very good speaker, they work out the theory of "Animalism". The rebellion starts some months later, when Mr Jones comes home drunk one night and forgets to feed the animals. They break out of the barns and run to the house, where the food is stored. When Mr Jones sees this he takes out his shotgun, but it is too late for him; all the animals fall over him and drive him off the farm. The animals destroy all whips, nose rings, reins, and all other instruments that have been used to suppress them. The same day the animals celebrate their victory with an extra ration of food. The pigs make up the seven commandments, and they write them above the door of the big barn. They run thus: 1. Whatever goes upon...
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...English E.O.C.A The novel “Animal Farm” was written in 1945 by author George Orwell. George Orwell was the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, a British writer born in Motihari, India in 1903. After serving in the Indian Imperial Police force, Orwell wrote “Down and Out in Paris and London,” an account of the conditions faced by the poor in France and England. Next, in 1936, he fought in the Spanish Civil War, which was his source of inspiration for “Homage to Catalonia.” After his days in service, he devoted his efforts to speaking out against the domination of one man over another. This is shown in books such asAnimal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” “Animal Farm” takes place in England, on Manor farm (later renamed Animal Farm) in Willingdon. It incorporates all seasons of the year, as it takes place over the course of many years, tracing the lives of all the animals. The point of view in the novel is third person, omniscient. “Animal Farm” is an allegory of the Russian Revolution and the course of communism in Russia and the USSR. The many characters in the book symbolize either one person or a group of people. The pigs represent the communist government and are the ones that become corrupt. More specifically, Old Major is Karl Marx, the “father of communism,” Snowball is Vladimir Lenin and Napoleon is Joseph Stalin. The dogs that Napoleon uses as his personal guards symbolize the KGB, the Soviet Police force. Most of the other characters like Boxer, Clover...
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...decisions are made by one authority. In "Animal Farm",George Orwell portrays how "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" In the story Old Major, who is a respected animal on the farm, had given a speech to stir the animals emotion into rebellion. He used his power of respect and trust to persuade the others to pursue the vision in his dream. Old Major had all the power. But, history has proven that dictatorship does not work, due to the fact that, power leads to corruption in a communism style government. The power Old Major held led his friends into taking action in what he desired to do, which led to a rebellion and future tragedies. Power corrupted society and absolute power that is eventually obtained becomes corrupt within. From the death of Old Major, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer replaced him. At first things started off pretty well; the harvest was very good the first year and the reading and writing system had helped some, but had limited success on others. In time, the leaders of Animal Farm started to have mixed feelings. Snowball and Napoleon were in constant disagreement. An important meeting that was held ended with an astonishing outcome. One decision that was made was concerning the windmill project and the most important decision made was who would be the head animal. But, Napoleon sent his dogs after Snowball and they killed him. Since Snowball had died, Napoleon took over "The Animal Farm" which led to food shortage, hard labour...
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...In the book Animal Farm there are multiple animals that represent historical figures (Orwell). The animal named Old Major who is a pig represents Vladimir Lenin from the Russian Revolution. there are many examples of how these two are related in the book. The first being on a similar speech they each gave. Old Majors speech explained that humans are evil while animals are not (Orwell 5-6). Lenin's speech discussed how people should all work together as a group to succeed. He also mentioned that it shouldn’t be only one person contributing work, everyone should work together for success (Lenin). This tells me that both Old Major and Lenin believe that it wasn’t fair for one person to do all the work while the others received the benefits....
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...book Animal Farm, written by Gorge Orwell, is written in the setting of what seems to be an ordinary farm. Alas the animals on the Manor Farm have a unique quality, they can talk. The story begins with an old pig, Old Major they call him, whom speaks the idea of a rebellion against humans especially their farmer, Jones. Once Old Major died, it gave the animals the courage they needed to overthrow the abusive farmer Jones. Now in control of their own lives, the animals received more food, and lived more comfortably without the fear of being slaughtered. Everything seemed to run smoothly just like they had hoped until a new leadership began to rise. Slowly the pigs began to take over claiming that because of their profound intelligence they...
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...this was contrary to the spirit of Animalism." P.17 The pigs Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer adapt Old Major's ideas into an actual philosophy, which they formally name Animalism. B "In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung." P.44 "Old Major's Dream" is the major cause of the Battle of the Cowshed. Though the animals don't know when the rebellion will take place, but when it happened the were all surprised that a rebellion had taken place and they had won. In the Battle of Cowshed, the animals in Animal Farm fought Mr. Jones and his men. Mr. Jones WAS the farmer of Manor Farm, but since the animals won the Rebellion, it is now called Animal Farm and owned by animals. The pigeons alerted the animals that Jones and his men were going to attempt an invasion on the farm to get it back. Jones and his men broke the barred door holding sticks while Mr. Jones was holding a shotgun. The animals fought wisely and Snowball, the cleverest pig on the farm, led the attack. Snowball ran right up to Jones and attacked him. Jones tried to fire at Snowball, but the sheep behind Snowball was shot and killed. Jones fell to the floor and his gunshot right up and fell into the mud. Boxer ran right up to a boy and attacked him with his tremendous force. The boy fell face first into the mud. Jones and his men were retreating, and the animals had won. After this, they all saw Boxer trying to make the little boy in the mud move, but he did...
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...Introduction Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a novel presenting a fictional world where animals can communicate with each other and act like humans. Animal farm is a book concerned about the politics of leadership and the rise of fall of great leaders; also the events surrounding the Animal Farm are mirrored to the events that took place during the Russian Revolution. There is also a relevance and resemblance of the occurrences in the book with the operations of a business and business communication. Within the content of the book, there were many parallels identified that existed with business communication, such as the various methods used to communicate with the animals on the farm such as meetings, written communication, debates and committees. Also, the communication channels used to communicate externally between the animal farm and the outside world, such as the use of word of mouth from Mr. Whymper as the messenger and the receiver, also the pigeons was used as messengers to spread news to other farms in England. Furthermore, technology was witnessed to prevail at the end of the story, as a source of progress in Animal Farm such as installing a telephone and subscribing to magazines. Animal farm also portrayed a comparison between the leadership approaches of human with that of the pigs that controlled the farm. In Animal Farm, old Major the boar on the Manor Farm, called the animals for a meeting and made a speech, Major explained to the animals that they are...
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...Joshua Jensen Kaatz – 3 PAP English II 5/4/15 Animal Farm PRI Author: George Orwell Genre: Novel Type of Plot: allegory, problem novel Setting: Animal Farm or Manor Farm (symbolic of Russia) in the 1920s to early 1950s Characters: Mr. Jones, Old Major, Snowball, Napoleon, Squealer, Boxer, Clover, Benjamin, Mollie, Moses, Frederick, Pilkington, Mr. Whymper, Minimus, Pinkeye Summary: Old Major the pig calls the animals over to tell them that they should have an uprising against Mr. Jones. After this, Old Major dies but the other animals are inspired by him and want to conduct animalism. The pigs are smarter than the other animals and start to run the farm. They have a revolution and successfully remove Mr. Jones, from the farm. The pigs create the rules of no sleeping in beds, no wearing clothes, no alcohol, no killing other animals, all animals are equal, and whoever has four legs or wings is a friend. Napoleon and the pigs, being the rulers, are starting to use the fresh milk and eat the apples because they “need” it. Napoleon also employs Squealer to persuade the other farm animals that the pigs are doing nothing wrong. Jones returns and the animals win at the battle of Cowshed. Mollie leaves the farm due to her interest in sugar and ribbons and never comes back. Snowball draws up plans for a windmill and Napoleon denies them and runs Snowball off the farm forever with his pack of dogs. After Napoleon chases Snowball off, he says the windmill was his idea after...
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...then be a prisoner all the days of your life.” Throughout the novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, the idea of freedom is revealed through the act of fighting and working. The farm animals of the Manor Farm want their freedom and equal rights. However, the farm is under control of narcissistic humans who only care for the produce the animals supply. So they secretly assemble in the barn and create ideas that induce the animals to fight for their independence. Because the humans, Mr. Jones and his people, have an advantage with weapons for self-defense, the animals agree to simultaneously ambush them; this way the humans have less power over the encounter. After...
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