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What Is Animal Farm Parallel To Russian Revolution

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The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell was a parallel to the Russian Revolution. The examples of the Russian Revolution in animal farm are the start of it when the stroke of Old Major happens with represents Lenin’s stroke. The murder of Snowball was Trotsky being murdered and forced into exile by Stalin. The dogs represent the secret police that shut down any of the opposition to make Stalin or Napoleon look bad. The last example of the parallel to the Russian Revolution was Napoleon says it's better now than when the farmer Mr. Jones was there, which is a direct parallel to Stalin saying its better without Czar Nicholas. The novel Animal farm starts off by the Old Major giving a speech of the freedoms animals should have and how horrible the owner Mr. Jones is. This …show more content…

After the dirty deed of murder was done Napoleon accused Snowball of being a traitor working with Mr. Jones trying to have him Mr. Jones reacquire the farm. The great ideas of Snowball were taken by Napoleon and claimed to have made his own like the Snowballs design of the windmill. The work on the farm increased and since it is a democracy where everyone agrees to make decisions, Napoleon tells the people he will do what is best for them. It starts to create a divide among the working animals and the pigs who were the brains of the operation. After gathering forces the farmers join together again to try and retake “Animal Farm” from the animals. The animals of the farm were always prepared for this action to happen so they were prepared. When the attack of regaining animal farm happened the animals used they plan they had created and successfully pushed out the farmers trying to regain the land. The animals didn't account for Mr. Jones who had planted TNT on the windmill and had blown it up in the back of the farm while the animals were in the front. It started a process that they had to rebuild the

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