Similarities Between Animal Farm And The Chinese Cultural Revolution

The cunning dictator Joseph Stalin once said “I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.” Revolution can be inevitable in certain situations and a very powerful motivation for the wrong reasons. George Orwell depicts revolution in Animal Farm through use of character portrayal, symbolism and a steady process and progression.

The cultural revolution is a strange period in Chinese history laced with intense struggle and anguish. The cultural revolution mobilized the all of society to compete for all opposing factions that they belonged to (Ong, 2016). Mao mobilized the young people of society during a background of political turmoil, which helped Mao to mobilize the students in order to enforce his political legitimacy and ideas (Ong, 2016). Mao’s charismatic authority created his personality cult and most defiantly leant a helping hand in mobilizing the red guard movement (Ong, 2016) (Weber, 1946) (Andreas, 2007). No matter which faction of the red guard they belonged to, they all mobilized against their common enemy; the better off, upper class. (Ong, 2016). Multiple ideologies within the youth led red guard movement explain why the movement gained momentum and became incredibly powerful (Walder, 2009).

There is a lot of societal connections between North Korea and Animal Farm. Communism existed for both countries, making positive/negative effects. Important communist leader of North Korea is currently Kim Jong-Un, who become a president of North Korea when his father Kim Jong-Il died. Leaders in North Korea was passed on from Kim dynasty which is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership descending from the country's first leader, Kim Il-sung, in 1948. Kim came to rule the North after the end of Japanese control in 1945 split the region. He began the Korean War in 1950 in an attempt to reunify the peninsula. Kim developed a cult of personality closely tied to their state philosophy of Juche, which was passed on to his successors:

Animal Farm, by George Orwell was published in 1945, a crucial time in history because of Stalin’s takeover of the Soviet Union and his exploitation of the centralized communist government. This was in direct contradiction to the expected results of the Russian Revolution. Orwell felt that revolutions fail because the end result is a change of tyrants and not of government. Orwell exemplifies this failure through the goals of the revolution and their failure to meet them, the malfunction of Napoleon and Snowball’s rule together, and Napoleon’s disastrous reign.

Old Major is Lenin, the dogs are the KGB, Moses is religion at that time, Mr. Jones is Tsar, Frederick is Hitler, Pilkington is the USA, Napoleon is Stalin, Snowball is Trotsky, Squealer is propaganda, Boxer is the laboring class, and Mollie is the upper class. It is not hard to determine which animals represent what. Orwell makes sure to make it simple for the reader to see who is representing who. Squealer is one of the easiest animals to pick out. Orwell describes Squealer as, “a small fat pig…with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes...and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker and when he was arguing a difficult point…he had a way which was somehow very persuasive” (Orwell 36). Squealer also uses a form of propaganda when speaking about Boxer, deception, because he is deceiving everyone to think good of Napoleon when, in reality, he is really the one that is the enemy here. Snowball is another easy parallel to catch because of the hatred of him by Napoleon. Just like how Trotsky was deported from Russia by the KGB, Snowball was chased off the farm by the dogs. Also, similar to how Trotsky and Stalin differ on opinions about many things, Napoleon and Snowball differed on opinions about the building of the windmill. Overall, the animals are very easy to characterize because of Napoleon’s

Although there are a few differences between Animal Farm and the Holocaust, my dystopian novel based off of the Russian revolution compared to the entirety of the Holocaust, are very similar in many different ways. Both showed terrible, worst case scenarios, hoping to make a form of a "perfect society" through totalitarian control. A few ways they were similar include, having a dictatorial leadership, murdering large masses of innocent people, and the special treatment to a specific group.

Animal Farm is a written allegory story by George Orwell. The novel is about what happened during the political time of Russia; the Bolshevik Revolution and show the betrayal of Joseph Stalin. This novel shows a lot of symbolism throughout and the main one is how Napoleon and Joseph Stalin are similar.

Today, throughout most of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is realized as one of the most chaotic and deadly times in chinese history; often referred to as the “ten lost years.” However, during the revolution, many hopeful individuals sought after change and looked toward Mao as

How should power be balanced out amongst a society? What balance of power can result in a beautiful utopia? How can we all lead a good life without stripping others of their own? The answers to these questions must be known if we want to lead a good, functioning society today and the answers can be found in the book, Animal Farm, written by George Orwell and the movie, The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir. Both fictional stories help us understand where we need to set boundaries in our lives and how to work in harmony with others. Animal farm is about animals over throwing an abusive farmer and running their own society. The Truman Show is about a man (Truman Burbank) who is obliviously living inside a reality TV show in which

Power,Utopia and the good life are all topics that coincide with each other to form our lives.

Honore de Balzac once said “Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on it can ever turn it into a fact. This quote connects to the theme “With power there’s never true equality.” Because although equality should be a given, while there is power present in society, it will never happen. Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novel about a farm that is overtaken by its animals. They assign one pig, Napoleon, to power. He began to only benefit the pigs and the other animals were often oppressed. “Mouseland” by Tommy Douglas is a story about cats leading a town of mice, and making rules that only benefitted the cat, and endangered the mice. The common theme in both these stories is similar to the theme the quote presented, “With power there’s never true equality.” The authors of both Animal Farm and “Mouseland” use the narrative techniques of conflict and characterization to illustrate political messages about power and equality.

Could something that is mean to be great actually turn out to be a negative? As individuals we are taught to be confident in oneself and to encourage confidence in others, to empower. Although, empowerment could be a bad thing if put in the wrong hands. Power given to others is a responsibility not to be taken lightly. The different themes in Animal Farm and Fahrenheit 451 are individually important, but when looked at side by side all circle back to one main theme, empowerment.

Although, the intent of the revolution in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, penned in 1945, was to make all animals equal, a class system emerges. At first, the creatures recognized they all had strengths and weaknesses, but the pigs soon emerged as the leader. The society, initially, developed Seven Commandments...soon all were deleted and replaced with one: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” (Orwell 134). Under the safeguard of the dogs, Napoleon and the other pigs strengthen their relentless authority and begin executing any society member they consider useless or a threat to their power. This symbolized a representation of socialism moving towards communism, which was Russia’s government at the time the book was written. Under this rule, the vulnerable and oppressed were subjected to corrupt and brutal authority.

On page 47-48 in Animal Farm, Orwell writes “Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ at crucial moments in Snowball’s speeches.” Because the crowd of animals tends to agree with the side that is speaking, Napoleon uses the sheep to break Snowball’s momentum and push the crowd towards him. Another tactic he uses is force and fear. At one of the farm’s meetings, Napoleon calls his nine, frightening-looking dogs to exile Snowball out of the farm. He then proceeds to take his place at the podium, protected by the dogs, while the other animals realize they were the puppies that Napoleon stole from their mothers to be trained privately. Orwell states on page 53 of Animal Farm, “It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones.” When another animal attempts to speak up and voice their oppositions, they are always shut down by the dogs. These terrifying dogs symbolize the Secret Police that arrested or killed anyone who said anything poor about the Soviet Union or Stalin. When Napoleon uses the dogs as his personal “guards”, he has more power than ever, and he is practically

animal revolution took place. Old major was the pioneer, which led a huge group of animals to overthrow farm owner Mr.Jones. The animal revolution aimed to establish a domestic society but result in a dictatorship society. Unfortunately, the revolution was a completely failure because they remained the idea of being a dictatorship country and the treaty could be easily edited. The only difference was that, in the past, the leader was a human, but now, the leader was a animal. The new leader not only love the problem of the animal farm, but also deepen the problem due to uneducated problem, Napoleon’s greedy, exaggerate propaganda.