The Role Of Communism In George Orwell's Animal Farm
When Animal Farm was first written by George Orwell in 1945 right after the second world war, Communism was just starting to show it self to the public. The book itself is a satire on Communism and the Russian Revolution which in George Orwell’s eyes had been counter productive. George Orwell was born in 1903 in The British Raj where he lived for about the first year of his life before moving to Great Britain proper(“George Orwell.”). After finishing college and finding he could not afford a university he joined the Indian Police Force for five years before moving back to England(“George Orwell.”). After living through both of the world wars and seeing the fall of the Romanovs and the rise of Communism George Orwell wrote two books that have
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In the early part of the book both Napoleon and Snowball are the leaders and run the farm with only slight bickering at first(Orwell). At the beginning of the revolution Trotsky was the leader of one of the major soviets and a supporter of the Bolshevik party but did not have the strongest relationship with Stalin when he took over. Later in the book Snowball wants to build a windmill for the benefit of every animal however, Napoleon resisted which is demonstrated by him saying, “He [Napoleon] said very quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that he advised nobody to vote for it”(Orwell 52). In Russia after the Bolsheviks took over power Trotsky started to try to help everyone and serve the people and not the elite, which Stalin disagreed with. The strongest connection between Snowball and Trotsky is at the Battle Cowshed where he lead the animals into battle, “with Snowball at the head of them, rushed forward and prodded and butted the men from every side,”(Orwell 41). in Russia as the communist were taking over their army called the Red Army was lead by Trotsky who kept the army well organized and disciplined. Snowball is a clear respavtating of Trotsky in his manner of acting, formation of the army, and disagreements with
In the early part of the book both Napoleon and Snowball are the leaders and run the farm with only slight bickering at first(Orwell). At the beginning of the revolution Trotsky was the leader of one of the major soviets and a supporter of the Bolshevik party but did not have the strongest relationship with Stalin when he took over. Later in the book Snowball wants to build a windmill for the benefit of every animal however, Napoleon resisted which is demonstrated by him saying, “He [Napoleon] said very quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that he advised nobody to vote for it”(Orwell 52). In Russia after the Bolsheviks took over power Trotsky started to try to help everyone and serve the people and not the elite, which Stalin disagreed with. The strongest connection between Snowball and Trotsky is at the Battle Cowshed where he lead the animals into battle, “with Snowball at the head of them, rushed forward and prodded and butted the men from every side,”(Orwell 41). in Russia as the communist were taking over their army called the Red Army was lead by Trotsky who kept the army well organized and disciplined. Snowball is a clear respavtating of Trotsky in his manner of acting, formation of the army, and disagreements with