George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a timeless classic about a tyrant pig named Napoleon, who takes over a farm. Napoleon then changes all of the rules and allows for some animals to be treated better than others. This book can be compared to many historical events, but I feel that it relates very closely to the Holocaust in Germany. The Manor Farm was taken over by all of the animals together, in hopes of creating a better life for themselves. The same thing happened in Germany; the National Socialist German Workers’ Party took control of the government in hopes of holding it together after Germany’s loss in WWII, which caused their economy to fall. The Jewish people were fine with the takeover because it was done to hold their country together. Both the Holocaust and Animal Farm …show more content…
The sixth commandment began as “no animal shall kill any other animal,” but when Napoleon realized that he wanted some of the “traitors” to be killed he changed this rule to “no animal shall kill any other animal without cause.” This can be connected to how Hitler changed laws allowing for his protective squad to kill anyone who did not follow the anti-jewish laws. By the end of the book all seven commandments have been changed to just one, “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” By changing the commandments to this, Napoleon is indirectly saying that some animals are better than other. It becomes obvious by the end of the book that Napoleon favors the pigs and dogs over other animals. Hitler favored Germans throughout his dictatorship, and thought that Jewish people, as well as gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses, were less than Germans. When the female pigs on the farm begin to have babies they must be children of Napoleon, because he is the only male pig. When they are born he builds a school to educate them. At this school only the pigs are allowed in and the other animals are not taught to