George Orwell Satirizing Communism in the Russian Revolution Irony, parody, exaggeration, and reversal are all satirical techniques used in George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a book about the Russian Revolution in 1917. Orwell uses satire to express his perspective and opinions on how things were accomplished and how people acted. His opinions base how his characters act in the book, as well as their goals; as each character in Animal Farm represents someone historically who took part in the Russian Revolution. In Animal Farm, George Orwell uses Animalism to satirize Communism in the Russian Revolution and emphasize its flaws, including treatment of workers, expression of ideas, and corrupt leaders. “Communism is an international …show more content…
One goal of Animalism and Communism is that everyone is equal. In Communism, the workers will not work for capitalists (who are the capitalists and why do ppl not want to work for them?) anymore and in Animalism they will not have to work for humans anymore (why is it best not to work for humans?). It is in the animals best interest not to work for the humans because they control the animals on the farm to avoid revolution and corruption. In history, Karl Marx outlined the ideas of Communism, as Old Major in Animal Farm. (compare communist manifesto to old major’s speech) Karl Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto, Animalism is worked for the animals to govern themselves; Communism’s difference is that instead of animals it is people. Communism believes strongly in fairness, classless society, and equality. Both of their goals are for their workers to own all of their production rather than humans or capitalists. However, the goals of Communism are later abandoned due to Trotsky being expelled from power and Russia. Orwell represented this through Snowball getting exiled off the farm by the dogs. Were the goals of animalism