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Three Primary Pigs In Animal Farm

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The Russian Revolution, a terrible uprising in the early 1900s, is allegorized by the fable Animal Farm, composed by George Orwell. The author wrote the novella as a re-telling of this event, but in a more humorous manner by using animals to represent the different aspects of the revolution. The three primary pigs accurately depicted the Bolshevik Political Party Russia, both being leaders of their own revolutions, promising to benefit their people, as well as having key roles in the uprising of Marxism, or Animalism, and the social class of workers. This all began with the Bolshevik Political Party of Russia, the intended leaders of the Russian uprising and enthusiasts of the Industrial Revolution. When the Socialist-Democratic Worker's …show more content…

The fable starts off with Old Major giving a speech about his plans of revolution and persuading the animals that humans were no good. Similarly, Karl Marx was the original mastermind of the revolution, the one who proposed all the ideas before Lenin and Stalin took over the uprising; similarly to Old Major. After Old Major died, he left the pigs to lead to be in charge of the animals and the farm's revolution trusting them that they would follow his plans. The pigs "...elaborated old Major's teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism" (Orwell 13). Lenin and Stalin, the leaders of the Bolsheviks, had also promised to use Marx's plans and tactics. While Snowball and Napoleon, the allegories of Lenin and Stalin, lead the political party, Squealer promotes it. Just like the Pravda Newspaper, this pig would talk about his while persuading the animals that all they do is aimed for the well-being and benefit for their followers. The pigs later begin to abuse their power, such as when they begin to change the original amendments of Marx and Marxism for their own benefit only, and they start behaving like humans to the point where it was "... already it was impossible to say which was which" (Orwell 97). After a while, the leaders of the Bolsheviks began to abuse their power and started a dictatorship as well. The way Orwell transformed the characteristics of the Bolsheviks into a group of pigs for the fable that he wrote accurately portrayed this political party as well as all of the people and events involved in the Russian Revolution that changed its

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