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George Orwell As An Allegory In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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In the book Animal Farm, George Orwell uses allegories to show the reader that Communism dissolves into a Dictatorship. George Orwell wrote this Story as an allegory for the Russian Revolution. Orwell uses satire to create humor and show how stupid the animals on the farm can be. Orwell used Old Major as an allegory for Karl Marx, Napoleon as an allegory for Stalin and Farmer Jones as an allegory for Tsar Nicholas II. George Orwell uses events like the exiling of the autocratic Farmer Jones as an allegory for the February Revolution, The Battle of the Windmill as an allegory for WWII, and the poker game as an allegory for Stalin’s totalitarianism. Orwell uses these events to show that communism corrupts people who have power and dissolves into a dictatorship over time.

The hardworking animals on the farm were furious with Farmer Jones and how he maintained the farm. During the rule of Farmer Jones, his farm was atrociously dirty and his “animals were underfed” (Orwell 11). Farmer Jones would sit in his chair “reading the newspapers [and] drinking” (Orwell 11) all day. With this Farmer Jones was always drunk and didn 't care about his animals. Tsar Nicholas II didn’t care about his country or people as well and only worried about his family and himself. This caused the citizens to fight against their leaders and get their freedom. The animals had been furious at the government so they “chased Jones and his men out” (Orwell 12) of Manor Farms. Tsar Nicholas II was exiled
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