George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, while it is a good read there is an underlying meaning to this story. Many people theorize animal farm is a representation of the Russian Revolution and communism. The animals repeat “all animals are equal” throughout the book, to me this makes me think of how the Russians opposed capitalism because they felt it would divide the people and therefore people wouldn’t be equal. If you pay close attention you can pretty easily guess which animal groups represented which people and social classes during the Russian Revolution, in the beginning Napoleon appears to represent Lenin, meanwhile Snowball represents Trotsky, it later appears that napoleon represents Stalin because he chases out Snowball and creates …show more content…
While socialism is all well and good in theory, it is almost impossible to successfully adopt because people just aren’t good, we like to screw things up and blame someone else, which is exactly what happens, Napoleon starts out as an alright leader, but he becomes greedy and power hungry, just like Stalin, and when things went wrong he would blame it on Snowball (who I believe is actually dead after the dogs chased him out) because he was an easy scapegoat (scapepig?) Since everyone now thought of him as a traitor who’s in league with Mr. Jones thanks to …show more content…
He called upon a meeting where he killed innocent animals because of suspicions that they were involved with Snowball. These events showed the true intention of Napoleon, and later we see him walking on two legs, which goes completely against animal farm’s motto “four legs good, two legs bad” and eventually starts wearing clothes, carrying a whip, and being more humanoid than animalistic, this really shows how similar Napoleon was to Mr. Jones, he wasn’t any different, and in fact strived to be exactly like their former tyrannical human masters. “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” this quote from the book really speaks volume to how governments and people of high power act; they say we are all equal while they hold themselves up on a