George Orwell has raised the prevailing issues and oppression of the power hungry leaders very effectively. He was one of those writers which were against fascism and communism. The parallels between novel’s events and the events in Soviet history are impossible to ignore. Orwell’s main focus in this novel was to portray that how power corrupts a man and he has exposed this through his characters, these characters more importantly symbolize different political figures which gives the text pinnacle. Since communism, imperialism, Stalinism and totalitarianism was not only present in that era but can be related to 21st century too.
Communism means when each person is given their property according to his or her need and ability while the whole property belongs to a system of social organization similarly, imperialism is when a country expands its power by controlling other areas of the world. The theory or ideology which is made by Joseph Stalin on the basis of centralization of power and totalitarianism is known as Stalinism. In the same way totalitarianism and fascism are alike, a complete submission of the state under a tyrant leader or a dictator and suppressing the opposition
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Orwell in his novel has very significantly reduced these hypocrite leaders to the state of being animals. The two characters Napoleon and Snowball specifically, Napoleon’s name is very well the reflection of the man, who ruled and overthrow everybody and became a great dictator and emperor of France and in the same way Tsar completely forgot about the ideal which people have dreamt in him. Orwell has successfully written a satire, in which human hypocrisy is unveiled in a literary fashion which not only relates to that Russian revolution but every revolution in