Animal Farm Research Paper 1
The following research will analyze the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. We will see what Animal Farm is really about and why it was banned in some countries. The References And Implications To Communism Are What Led To The Banning Of Animal Farm. Many people feel that Animal Farm is one of Orwell’s most noted books, but to people like Joseph Stalin, it posed a threat. The implications to communism were too strong, and the characters too closely resembled actual communists. Animal Farm threatened to expose the injustices happening within the system of communism, so The Soviet Union banned the book. My research first brought me to “Animal Farm, George Orwell – Introduction,” which I found on enotes.com. It is an analysis of the book Animal Farm; it reveals how the book indicates Stalin and The Soviet Union, and shows us why the book is so controversial. While on the topic of major themes, the writer says that Animal Farm is seen as a “cautionary tale,” and is meant to warn readers of the “pitfalls of revolution.” Those ideas are obviously ones that a dictator would want to extinguish, and Stalin definitely did. The writer states that:
… commentators widely view Animal Farm as an allegory for the rise and decline of socialism in the Soviet Union and the emergence of the totalitarian regime of Joseph Stalin…After its translation into Russian, it was banned by Stalin’s government in all Soviet-ruled areas.
Stalin was fearful that after reading Animal Farm, people would no longer be ignorant to what was going on, and that they would renounce his dominion over them. He anticipated the book educating people; they would cease to be his unaware puppets, so in order to prevent this from happening, he banned the book altogether. During my research I also found a very enlightening online graph, written up by George J. Lamont. The graph compares characters in the book Animal Farm to the Russian Revolution. From reading the graph I can see that Mr. Jones represents Czar
… commentators widely view Animal Farm as an allegory for the rise and decline of socialism in the Soviet Union and the emergence of the totalitarian regime of Joseph Stalin…After its translation into Russian, it was banned by Stalin’s government in all Soviet-ruled areas.
Stalin was fearful that after reading Animal Farm, people would no longer be ignorant to what was going on, and that they would renounce his dominion over them. He anticipated the book educating people; they would cease to be his unaware puppets, so in order to prevent this from happening, he banned the book altogether. During my research I also found a very enlightening online graph, written up by George J. Lamont. The graph compares characters in the book Animal Farm to the Russian Revolution. From reading the graph I can see that Mr. Jones represents Czar
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