How Does Animal Farm Make An Allegorical Critique Of North Korea?

George Orwell, the pseudonym of english author Eric Arthur Blair, was an influential author of novels, novellas, and essays that criticized the rise and practices of authoritarian governments. One of his most revered works, Animal Farm, is hailed as a brilliant piece that satirizes the statues of Stalinism by allegorizing its tumultuous rise and the harsh, often lethal loyalty Stalinism demands of its followers. One of the hallmarks of Stalinist rule is its frequent use of propaganda. In his novella, Animal Farm, Orwell presents the use of propaganda in a Stalinist society through the deification of a leader, the use of scapegoating against an exiled revolutionary and against the vices of man; and exposes the practice of engendering fear into the population of Animal Farm.

1984 demonstrates a dystopian society in Oceania by presenting a relentless dictator, Big Brother, who uses his power to control the minds of his people and to ensure that his power never exhausts. Aspects of 1984 are evidently established in components of society in North Korea. With both of these society’s under a dictator’s rule, there are many similarities that are distinguished between the two. Orwell’s 1984 becomes parallel to the world of dystopia in North Korea by illustrating a nation that remains isolated under an almighty ruler.

George Orwell’s story Animal Farm is a strong and powerful allegory about the Russian revolution. The story outlines the overtaking of a farm called manor farm and trying to make a living without a person in charge. Themes George Orwell is portraying are Revolution, Equality, and Greed As the story develops a revolution takes place. The first signs of the revolution start when old Major gave a speech before he died saying that the animals are being mistreated and they should rise up for their freedom and equality.

Often times in a communist society, a leader’s use of language can lead to abuse of power. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the farm leaders, the pigs, use unknown language, invoke scare tactics, and create specific laws, thereby enabling them to control other animals, to suit their greedy desires, and to perform actions outside their realm of power. Because of the pigs’ use of broad language, implementation of scare tactics, and creation and manipulation of laws, they are able to get away with avoiding laws and convincing other animals into believing untrue stories and lies that are beneficial to the pigs.

"All oppression creates a state of war" -Simone de Beauvar, French Philosopher. Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory for the Russian Revolution. Each animal was a key character in the Revolution such as Napoleon being Joseph Stalin, Mr. Jones being Tsar Nicholas and Boxer, being an ignorant. Mr.Jones was run off the farm because the animals were tired of the drunken man mistreating them. What the animals didn't know was that they went from one dictator to a whole group of them. The pigs. Ignorance contributes to political and social oppression and is proved by the inability to comprehend what the pigs are doing to the other animals. The animals cannot read or write as well, are perplexed easily, couldn't see the blemishes in the pig's leadership, or how the pigs changed things and didn't see or completely ignored how the pigs had acted.

Communism is one of the worst forms of totalitarianism, which is a form of government which tries, or does control every aspect of life. Communism is one of the worst due to many believing it will “free you from oppression”. This book, though it was written in 1954, is still relevant today. Communism may not be as common, or heard of as much today. It is still a threat, you see the things in the book still happen in China, North Korea, Cuba, and more. The plot also could reference other totalitarian revolutions, such as the Korean war, (the creation of North Korea). As well as the Cuban revolution in 1959, when Fidel Castro rose to power.

The people of North Korea lead miserable, laborious, and short lives. The brutal lives of the North Korean people resembles that of the characters in George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a satirical allegory that heavily criticizes the tyranny of the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. It tells a tale of how a group of mostly dim-witted farm animals overthrow their human owners, only to be governed by cunning and callous pigs. Although Animal Farm appears fairytale-like, it has numerous applicable lessons woven throughout the plot. Orwell explicitly warns his readers that the lack of education within a society will ultimately lead to the evolution of a dictatorship and the ignorance of his lesson is evident today in North Korea under the tyrannical rule of Kim Jong-un.

North Korea’s regime has a tight grip on its citizens. The surveillance system is oppressive as well an invasion to the citizen’s human rights. But in North Korea the words “human rights” don’t exist, because the regime has such a harsh oppressive grip on them. There’s a stark contrast between the oppressive grip of North Korea and their bordering neighbor of South Korea because of their prison camps that are installed into their society. In comparison, North Korea is becoming eerily similar to the Soviet Union during Stalin’s reign.

Orwell uses the allegory, Animal Farm, to present the story of The Russian Revolution and essentially express his opinions on the matter. By plainly exposing the unjust and corrupt system that is communism, Orwell is ultimately presenting his pessimistic view of human nature.

Most people never ponder the fact that animals are actually considered to be slaves. People are not the only ones who are notorious for being slaves. Animals are controlled and manipulated into doing things against their will the same way slaves were while under the rule of the American colonists before, during, and after the American Revolution. In the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the animals, who are personified as a human population, are treated like human slaves, manipulated, and controlled by a tyrant, authoritarian leader, like those of the American Revolution.

This story Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novel about an animal revolution over an oppressive farmer. The irony in the story comes when the pigs turn into the very thing revolted against. They exhibit the same cruelty by treating the other animals the same or even worse than previous owners. This cycle of cruelty is shown in the Russian revolution by Joseph Stalin who is represented by Napoleon in the story. Cruelty in animal farm is shown by the human’s treatment of the animals, and the animal’s eventual treatment of each other and the ironic characteristics of the two.

Many authors have written books where the government is an all oppressing force. This view has been popular among readers simply because they refuse to see that the people of that society were at fault as well. The readers sympathize with the character's struggles and living situations because the readers feel that they are in similar situations. In 1984, Animal Farm, and Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell, the forms of governments were oppressing their citizens by withholding essential information and promoting half lies that had adverse effects on the population. It cause for people to oppress themselves by their ignorance and attitudes that prevent them from progressing onwards.

“History consists of a series of swindles, in which he masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of utopia, and then, when they have done their job, enslaved over again by new masters” (Brander). Animal Farm, a farm with animals that are treated cruelly and dream for a better life in which animals are all equal and independent of depraved humans, is an allegory of the development of communism, even totalitarianism. After successfully driving away Mr. Jones, the cruel, tyrannous, drunken owner of the farm, the animals, with the pigs acting as leaders for their superior intelligence, believe they are going to be rewarded with the certainty of living in an

With little to eat and hard working hours, the animals on the farm are having a hard time living with their caretaker, Mr. Jones, a repulsive man who does not feed or even care for his animal’s well being. It’s sort of like a torture situation or slavery because they animals are not getting their fair share of food and resources for working so hard. “As the for the dog, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond” (Orwell 9). Jones’ actions can be directly related to those of the last Russian Tsar, Tsar Nicholas II during the uprising of communism in Russia and when all of his people in Russia were not getting fed and getting worked to death, but still somehow surviving. The animals in the farm are being terrible taken care of and treated just like the citizens of Russia under

George Orwell includes a strong message in his novel Animal Farm that is easily recognizable. Orwell’s Animal Farm focuses on two primary problems that were not only prominent in his WWII society, but also posed as reoccurring issues in all societies past and present. Orwell’s novel delivers a strong political message about class structure and oppression from the patriarchal society through an allegory of a farm that closely resembles the Soviet Union.