Book Assignment Animal Farm
Part 1:
Introduction Blurb:
When the animals of Manor Farm take over the farm, they start thinking about a life of freedom and equality.
But who they think that where their friends they have started a ruthless elite among them. The mastermind
behind it were the pigs Napoleon and Snowball. And soon the other animals of the farm discovered that they
are not equal as they thought. They saw that one form of tyranny had replaced it with other.
The author/time period:
The connection of the book with the historical timeframe, the book is based on the events of Russia’s Bolshevik
revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin.
'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Orwell, George. ([1996) Animal farm
Here they want to say that you will never be equal, the story here was going about the comrade Napoleon who
said this Napoleon stands for Stalin. Old Major is the pig who gave a speech and stimulated the animals to start
a revolution. Old Major is in real life Vladimir Lenin, and Snowball is the intellectual revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already
it was impossible to say which was which.” Orwell, George. ([1996) Animal farm
This citation means that the pigs who were able to take over the control of the animal farm. That they have
abandoned the principles of animalism and are like the humans. So the other animals cannot tell the difference
between them anymore.
Vyacheslav Molotov was Stalin’s protégé and head of communist propaganda. In the story Molotov is Squealer.
Squealer does also things to manipulate the animals in the farm. And so did Molotov. He also represented the
soviet newspaper, Pravda. (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mar 5, 2020)
Themes:
The Corruption of Socialist Ideals in the Soviet Union
Animal farm tells the story about the rise of power of the dictator Joseph Stalin. In the novel, you see how fast
the pigs take the power from the human Mr. Jones by a democratic coalition. The pigs establish themselves as
the new leaders and started also some rules. But after that they start to take more and more power.
The pigs Snowball and Napoleon started a rivalry like Leon Trotsky and Stalin in real life. In both historical and
fictional cases, the less powerful figure Snowball (Trotsky) is expelled from the revolution. And this by
Napoleon (Stalin). Stalin eliminated his enemies and solidified his political base with the purges. This also find
expression in Animal Farm as the false confession and executions of animals whom Napoleon distrusts
following the collapse of the windmill.
The pigs represent the tyrannical rule and eventual abandonment of the founding principles of the Russian
revolution by Stalin. In the novel you see the corruption of Animalist ideals by those who are in power.
The Seven Commandments illustrates the hypocrisy with vivid force, as do Squealer’s elaborate philosophical
justification for the pigs and their actions. This novel critiques the violence of Stalin’s regime against the people,
and it also points to Soviet communism’s violence against human logic, language and ideals.
Part 1:
Introduction Blurb:
When the animals of Manor Farm take over the farm, they start thinking about a life of freedom and equality.
But who they think that where their friends they have started a ruthless elite among them. The mastermind
behind it were the pigs Napoleon and Snowball. And soon the other animals of the farm discovered that they
are not equal as they thought. They saw that one form of tyranny had replaced it with other.
The author/time period:
The connection of the book with the historical timeframe, the book is based on the events of Russia’s Bolshevik
revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin.
'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Orwell, George. ([1996) Animal farm
Here they want to say that you will never be equal, the story here was going about the comrade Napoleon who
said this Napoleon stands for Stalin. Old Major is the pig who gave a speech and stimulated the animals to start
a revolution. Old Major is in real life Vladimir Lenin, and Snowball is the intellectual revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already
it was impossible to say which was which.” Orwell, George. ([1996) Animal farm
This citation means that the pigs who were able to take over the control of the animal farm. That they have
abandoned the principles of animalism and are like the humans. So the other animals cannot tell the difference
between them anymore.
Vyacheslav Molotov was Stalin’s protégé and head of communist propaganda. In the story Molotov is Squealer.
Squealer does also things to manipulate the animals in the farm. And so did Molotov. He also represented the
soviet newspaper, Pravda. (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mar 5, 2020)
Themes:
The Corruption of Socialist Ideals in the Soviet Union
Animal farm tells the story about the rise of power of the dictator Joseph Stalin. In the novel, you see how fast
the pigs take the power from the human Mr. Jones by a democratic coalition. The pigs establish themselves as
the new leaders and started also some rules. But after that they start to take more and more power.
The pigs Snowball and Napoleon started a rivalry like Leon Trotsky and Stalin in real life. In both historical and
fictional cases, the less powerful figure Snowball (Trotsky) is expelled from the revolution. And this by
Napoleon (Stalin). Stalin eliminated his enemies and solidified his political base with the purges. This also find
expression in Animal Farm as the false confession and executions of animals whom Napoleon distrusts
following the collapse of the windmill.
The pigs represent the tyrannical rule and eventual abandonment of the founding principles of the Russian
revolution by Stalin. In the novel you see the corruption of Animalist ideals by those who are in power.
The Seven Commandments illustrates the hypocrisy with vivid force, as do Squealer’s elaborate philosophical
justification for the pigs and their actions. This novel critiques the violence of Stalin’s regime against the people,
and it also points to Soviet communism’s violence against human logic, language and ideals.
