Animal Farm Allegory

Tsar Nicholas II was a poor leader. It seems that he does not want to be the Tsar (71). When the Tsar received the telegram of the destruction of the Russian fleet a Tsushima, he simply placed into his pocket. He shows no interest in being a leader. A normal would have quickly reacted to that situation but the Tsar did not. During his reign (Nicholas II), Russia was in disaster (72). Forcing someone to do something, that person does not want to do will lead to disaster. He such a "leader" that Kaiser Wilhelm II patronizes him of "only fit to live in a country house and grow turnips." (9). The man has no strength, his is everything but strength. There are many holes in the government of Russia and in his leadership. The holes could have been filled up if he had picked up the slack and pushed himself to be leader. The resulting consequences of his poor leadership could have also been

Tsar Nicholas II is thought to be personally responsible for the collapse of the Russian Monarchy. His nature wasn’t well suited for the role he held therefore he was an incompetent leader. Russia was undergoing many changes and was in early stages of industrialization. This was followed by an embarrassing string of defeats of which the Tsar was badly prepared. His unsuccessful involvement in the First World War added to the disappointment in the government’s incompetence and corruption. There were many opportunities for Russia to modernize but this would require political change, which the Tsar was unwilling to do. Nicholas had many opportunities throughout his reign to reform, but destroyed his last chance of survival.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia reluctantly took command of an empire overflowing with revolutionaries who were seeking change in response to hardships that their nation was facing. His timid personality, coupled with his lack of political education and military experience, made him unfit to calm the war-fueled chaos that would soon envelop Russia. Nicholas’ series of unfortunate, unprepared and uninformed decisions began with his marriage and eventually ended with his decision to abandon the capital to lead his armies, ultimately leading to the demise of his imperial family’s three-hundred-year dynastic tradition.

“I have been questioning his methods of ruling for years now, ever since he stripped my family of my beloved brother. I had idolized my brother and was inspired to follow his footsteps in a fight for change when the Tsar’s okhrana brutality took him from me on May the 8th, 1887. I believed the Tsar Nicholas’s ruling methods to be outdated and his use of brutality and ignorance to be the cause of the minorities depression within this mislead country. The motivation my brother’s death brought to me pushed me to investigate further into politics. Here I found more unjust laws the Tsar stood by and I decided to work hard enough to make a change.”

Czar Nicholas was a king who could not lead his people and eventually lost power because he could not lead his country to prosperity. He cared a lot about his family but did not care as much for his country and his people. Mr. Jones was a neglectful owner who did not take care of his animals or his farm and was eventually forced to leave and give up his power because of his choices. Both of them could have prevented the

Czar Nicholas II was the last tsar to rule Russia, before ending the 450 year span of the monarchy. During the tsar’s ruling they had always been disliked by Russia’s citizens, however “Tsar Nicholas II faced a situation no other tsar had faced. Tsars had ruled during unpopular wars, but never a war as bloody as World War I.” (Waldron). When czar Nicholas II decided to lead their country into war one of the biggest issues was transporting supplies to the troops and the rest of the country. Therefore, Russia was suffering extreme famine and began to face several defeats under the leadership of czar Nicholas II.

Nicholas the second was Russia’s last Czar which ended the age of monarchy for them. “Nicholas II received his education through a string of private tutors, including a high-ranking government official named Konstantin Pobedonostsev. While Nicholas II excelled in history and foreign languages, ironically, the future leader struggled to comprehend the subtleties of politics and economics.” (Nicholas II Biography, biography.com, A&E Television Networks, June 22, 2016) When he was 19 he joined the army and despite being heir to the throne he reached to the rank of colonial. “ Nicholas II inherited the Russian throne when his father died of kidney disease at the age of 49 on October 20, 1894. Reeling from the loss, and poorly trained in affairs

Mr.jones goes out to get drunk and forgets to feed the animals. The cows are fed up and kick in the barn door and all of a sudden all the animals are eating from the bins. When Mr.jones and his men come in ro whip the animals into obedience, full-scale rebellion erupts, and the animals chase Mr.jones and his men off the farm. “ All animals are equal “ in this scenario, Mr. Jones is an allusion to the last tsar of russia, NICHOLAS II.The tsar had been known for being out of

     Nicholas II (1868-1918) was born at Tsarskoe Selo, then son of Alexander III and the grandson of Alexander II. He received a military education and traveled through Greece, Egypt, India, and Japan before he became czar. In 1849, he received the crown and married the German princess Alexandra of Hesse, who bore four daughters and a son. Russian liberals had hoped the new czar, who was a pleasant and friendly young man, would grant badly needed reforms and lift his country to a position among the free, progressive nations of the world. Nicholas was

This essay will explore the situations and ideas shown throughout this novel and if they have a deeper meaning behind them. This will show the political allusions in Animal Farm shown through the characters of Mr. Jones, Napoleon, and Squealer. The novel starts with a drunken farmer named Mr. Jones, who is the overseer of the Manor Farm. The animals in the farm feel that Mr. Jones mistreats them by exploiting them for eggs milk and other forms of produce. In this way, Mr. Jones would be compared to Czar Nicholas II who overthrown by Bolshevik and liberal revolutionaries.

When the animals ran Mr. Jones off the farm it was the same thing as Czar Nicholas being overthrown. In history and in the book it shows that both the czar and Mr. Jones were unfit to care for anybody but

After the Czar, a provisional government is set up in Russia to run the country (Brown). After Mr. Jones, the animals are led by a pig named Napoleon who ends up being very similar to Farmer Jones as well. Also, another way these two people are alike is they were both forced out of their rule. Czar Nicholas was forced into exile and later killed. Farmer Jones had been forced out by his animals who took over.

During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia was King since 1894, is forced to retire the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial governement is installed in his place. Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change. The disastrous outcome of the Russo-Japanese War led to the Russian Revolution of 1905, Which the czar diffused only after signing a manifesto promising represenative governement adn bacic civil liberties in Russia. In 1914, Nicholas led his country into another costly war, and discontent in Russia grew as food became scarce, soldiers became war-weary, and devastating defeats on the eastern fron demonstrated

Tsar Nicholas II and and Joseph Stalin were vicious rulers who both transformed the once great Russian Empire into a series of fragmented states.

Tsar Nicholas II’s reign was turbulent, seeing wars, revolutions, and a general sense of displeasure from the people and the government. Intellectuals were no longer content with living under an autocracy and believed that the Russian government was archaic and inefficient. Peasants spoke out against their poor living and working conditions. By 1917, Nicholas’ reign was over and the Romanov family was no longer in power.