Major Events Correspond To The Russian Revolution

Over the course of the book, Animal Farm by George Orwell, major events correspond to major events that occurred during the real Russian Revolution. There are more than twelve major events that took place in Animal Farm and correspond to the Russian Revolution. The most important events in Animal Farm show the start of the revolution, the exchange of powers, the cruelty to the workers, and the pigs transforming into humans.

The beginning of Animal Farm shows Old Major’s spark of revolution followed by the removal of Jones’s tyranny, the pigs running the farm and the Battle of Cowshed. Old Major’s Speech represents Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto”. The speech and “The Communist Manifesto” both explain the basics of the two new ideals, the Manifesto states that capitalism is unstable and the elimination

In Old Major’s speech he says “There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word - Man”. Man represents the current government in Russia. A few months after the speech the animals drove Jones off the farm. The animals running Jones off the farm represents the Bolsheviks seizing power. Both of these revolutions occurred at a time when the governments were highly disliked and not doing their jobs the way they should have. As soon as the animals gained control of the farm the pigs take power over the rest of the animals. The pigs taking power represents the establishment of the Communist party. The pigs are the smartest of the animals so they turn into the brains and the overseers of the farm, the Communist party took power in 1918 after rising from the