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Animal Farm Research Paper

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Socialism is becoming a growing political ideology in the American society today, especially the youth. Socialism is right next to communism on the political scale, having the same views, but to a “lesser extreme”. As history has shown, these political ideologies do not work, and the fact that some of America is supporting socialist Bernie Sanders, is incredibly risky. Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is a warning that the idea of a socialist or communist government cannot work by allegorically exploiting the issues of Stalin’s ideas and the Russian Revolution through farm animals and demonstrating how it divides a nation, limits freedom, destroys the economy and gives one person ultimate power. The Russian Revolution began in 1917 as the people …show more content…

Orwell got his idea of Animal Farm as a boy when he saw a man whooping a horse and thought, if only the horse knew the power he had over the human, and began to think about Marxism from the animals point of view (Rodden 73). In the novel, Manor Farm represents the country of Russia and Mr. Jones is the parallel to Czar Nicholas II. The animals overthrow Mr. Jones and appoint the two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball as their leaders. Napoleon is Stalin’s parallel and Snowball is Trotsky’s. Orwell’s novel is a direct retelling of the Russian Revolution, but along the lines of Aesop’s fables and a warning to the destruction of communism. The major theme and well-known saying, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” (Orwell 112) is the flaw Orwell is trying to expose. Orwell is desperate for us to get the point not a point of this novel, that communism will inevitably fail because the one who takes power is corrupted by it and turns from the values they originally held (Foster 98). America has got to realize that if communism happened in Russia it can happen anywhere during any era (Rodden 72). These statements are just as true

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