Similarities Between Russian Revolution And Animal Farm

The Russian Revolution occurred in 1917. It removed Russia from World War I and led to the conversion of the Russian Empire into the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The USSR substituted Russia’s traditional monarchy with the world’s first Communist state. This caught the attention of one author named George Orwell. Orwell used the events from the Russian Revolution and portrayed it in one of his works, Animal Farm. Many of the events and characters in Orwell’s novel are parallel to the Russian Revolution. For example, Manor Farm represents the country of Russia. Comparing the novel to the Russian Revolution is important because sometimes literature mirrors society; this helps readers have a better understanding of what they are reading. The outcome of this paper is to explain the similarities

After Mr. Jones had fallen asleep, all the animals gathered in the farm with Old Major. He began telling the animals that their lives were miserable, laborious, and short. He also goes on and says that they endure cruelty after they turn one-year old, and they do not have any type of time to themselves. Old Major claimed that the animals were being treated as slaves because humans forced the animals to work, and in the end, they would barely give the animals anything in return. He believes that human beings are to blame for the tyranny and the animals should therefore get rid of them (Orwell, 1984). Old Major gave a classic Marxist critique of capitalist exploitation: the humans own means of production, while the animals slave and only receive in return enough to keep working (Shmoop, 2008). Moreover, Old Major stated that a revolution would occur but he was not sure when. This is like Marx’s thought of the capitalist system ultimately destroying itself. The idea of Animalism eventually led to a revolution, which is discussed