Examples Of Allegory In Animal Farm By George Orwell

In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, there is a direct parallel between the characters in the book to the 1917 Russian Revolution, as well as to the behavior and actions that represent what it’s like to be human. This method of storytelling is known as an allegory in which most events and characters in the novel are associated with historical figures or events taking place throughout the Russian Revolution.
The novel opens with an introduction to a manor farm, owned by a man named Mr. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are intended to represent historical figures Czar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, Russian Emperor and Empress during the Revolution. The two rulers “felt very confident that the people loved Nicholas too much to ever

Jones and his family. In response to the animals anger with Jones, a meeting is arranged in which a speech is given by Old Major, an elder, intelligent boar, who “{...} was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say” (Orwell 4).
The labor done by the animals on the farm shares many characteristics with human enslavement. When Old Major expresses his concerns in his speech, he states that the nature of the animals lives is miserable. The animals are overworked beginning the day they’re born and are only ever given enough food to allow them to stay alive. As soon as an animal has become “unuseful” they are killed. He goes on to express that “the life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth” (Orwell 6).
Slavery is a large issue amongst society and the way the animals are used as slaves in Animal Farm can be related to humans using one another as slaves for their own personal benefit. As stated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in article 4, “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms”, however in Animal Farm this is clearly violated by Mr. Jones (UN General

After a storm and a now destroyed windmill, farmers in the area claim that thin walls and poor structuring were the reason behind the collapsing of the building. However, Napoleon blames Snowball, claiming that he returned to the farm to destroy the windmill. The sequence of events revolving around the windmill in Animal Farm is an allegory to Stalin’s Five Year Plan in which was created during the time of the Russian Revolution. The general idea of creating the Five Year Plan was to make farm labor more efficient and useful, such as what was intended by building the windmill on the farm.
Napoleon soon begins to expand and abuse his powers by manipulating and changing history to prove Snowball the enemy and antagonist of the farm. He begins to slowly turn on the previous Animalism principles, but Squealer always justifies and defends him and his every action to show Napoleon as a great