Animal Farm Connection To The Russian Revolution

Unit 2 Writing Assessment: Animal Farm

Revolutions and Connections

Animal Farm and many revolutions connect to each other and both follow the same theme but where is a good place it is shown or described? In this Essay you’ll learn how they all connect. In the novel Animal Farm it tells a story about animals and taking over a farm by revolting against their owner. Then it shows us how different leadership roles change over time. Next it shows how the new leader uses language as power and violence as power. Finally it shows how the leader is using all of the other types of animals and is lying about everything. Throughout the story and time learning about revolutions I realized or noticed that language was being used to gain power over many

One reason I believe that The story is connected to the revolutions is because they both had strict and unfair leaders like Napoleon and Joseph Stalin. In the story Napoleon uses his power and dogs to take over the farm just like Stalin used his army to take over Russia. In the novel it also shows similarities To the Russian Revolution by violence. Napoleon and Stalin both use violence to scare people and to make people agree and follow them. Violence was also used to gain power it even says in the novel “No animals shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. ”. One of the last reasons that Animal Farm connects to the revolutions is that the leaders change and made new rules every time. In the story it even told you that Napoleon and other pigs came out of the barn walking on two legs. This shows the connection because both the leaders were making there own rules and switching other rules

When George Orwell adds Squealer talking bad about snowball he is showing language being used as power because squealer is gaining Power or followers for Napoleon. This relates to both the theme and the revolution because Stalin and Hitler both worked together to gain power for each other and they both told many lies to gain power. George Orwell also showed language being used as power in his novel when he included Old Major talking about his dream and telling all of the animals what was going to happen and what the animals needed to do if they didn’t want to be treated how there owner was treating them. This could connect to the theme because Old Major telling everyone about what needed to happen and what was going to happen gained more respect for him which made more animals believe in his leadership. George Orwell also includes Napoleon and Squealer telling lies to the other animals about sending boxer to the hospital not to only get money out of it but to also make me the animals feel like Napoleon was trying to help boxer when they sent him to the hospital. It even says in the text “ Squealer announces that Boxer died in the hospital, and that his last words were “ Napoleon is always right.” George Orwell adds this quote to show how leaders can lie to gain trust and power even when it's not true. This could and probably ended up happening in many