Comparison Of Old Major And George Orwell's Animal Farm

In chapter 1 it starts off with Old Major, a prize Middle White boar, having a strange dream and wanting to share it with the other animals on the farm. Later in the night when Mr. Jones was fast asleep all of the animals on the farm went to meet in the Big Barn to hear of the dream that Old Major had. The dream Old Major had the night before was about the reality of every animals fait on the farm and if it was not for the very existence of man they would be free of the labor they are forced to do. Old Major believes that in the future they will have a rebellion against the humans running the farm this is very similar to that of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto reflects the goals of communism and argues that

Snowball thought that it should be grown for it would save them hours of work and give them a surplus of food. Napoleon opposed this idea, surprisingly, "these two disagreed at every point where disagreement was possible." (p. 68) They argued for some time, Snowball convincing the animals by saying "so much labor would be saved that the animals would only need to work three days a week" (p. 73), while Napoleon "refused to believe either that food would become more plentiful or that the windmill would save work." (p. 73) In the end it was obvious Snowball would win this argument, since he already had the majority of the animals on his side. Napoleon would not stand to losing against Snowball one more time, so when Snowball was done speaking and before the animals were about to vote on who won, Napoleon said a high-pitched whimper, a kind nobody has ever heard before. At this moment nine fierce large dogs came barging into the barn, and went straight for Snowball, who moved just in time to escape the dogs. The dogs chased Snowball until he was finally gone and out of the farm, and their lives for good. The third Sunday following Snowball's expulsion, Napoleon announced that the windmill will be built without explanation. This reminds me of the conflict that happened between Trotsky and Stalin back in 1922. This was the time when Vladimir Lenin became

Jones and his men the animals agreed with the pigs that a meeting should be held every Sunday in the big barn to discuss important matters. On one of the Sundays they were discussing some of the new changes that will take effect right away, one of these changes was that no eggs were to be sold or given away, for every single one shall be born. Later on in the book after Napoleon, overthrows Snowball, Napoleon is almost obsessed with power and being in control, so when the farm has a food shortage he decides to make a deal to sell 400 eggs a week. When the animals heard of this they could not believe their ears, the hens started to rebel, in turn Napoleon decided to cut their rations entirely until they wanted to compromise. 9 hens had to die before they finally gave in. That was not all, following this Napoleon called an emergency meeting and forced several pigs to confess "that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick. They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones's secret agent for years past." (p. 122) Three hens then confessed to having a dream about Snowball telling them to disobey Napoleon orders, several other animals confessed to doing bad things under the order of Snowball, resulting in