I enjoyed reading Animal Farm. ... Animal Farm is a stinging review of the history and expression of the Russian Revolution. ... In a sense the pigs are the government of the farm and the other animals are the citizens. Animal Farm also presents theme of hypocrisy. ... The pigs betray there fellow animals on more than one occasion Animal Farm is a good quality book. ...
The story of Animal Farm written by George Orwell in 1945 is known to be more than a 'fairy tale' story. ... This show the struggle of the animals against oppression and tyranny of the group of pigs in the farm. ... In the story, the animal cause a rebellion against Farmer Jones which is caused by his ignorance and mismanagement of the farm. ... When the animals overrun Farmer Jones, the pigs volunteer to become the leaders of the farm with is the start of Animalism in the farm. ... In the end, the management of the farm under the pigs were not as fruitful as first thought by the...
Symbolism in Animal Farm In Animal Farm, George Orwell uses symbolism to compare his characters with their real-life counterparts. ... Propaganda and loyal workers of the Russian Revolution are symbolized in Animal Farm by use of Squealer the pig and Boxer the horse. ... Boxer is represented in Animal Farm to symbolize the proletariats. ... Symbolism is used all throughout Animal Farm. ... Animal Farm was written to criticize the events and people during the time of the revolts against Russia. ...
Animal Farm, George Orwell's most popular book, is a fictional story based on the 1940's rise of Communism in the Soviet Union, a.k.a. ... He changed each Communist leader into an animal, and the Soviet Union as a country into a country-side farm. ... Much like Soviet events, Stalin then makes a country dislike Trotsky through a series of lies and eventually Trotsky is fleeing the country much as Snowball does in Animal Farm. ... The other animals on the farm simply represent the common Soviet people. ... Orwell's work, Animal Farm, is a brilliantly written beast fable that ha...
In Animal farm Orwell uses his symbolic farm to represent the communist system. ... The barn at Manor Farm is where all on the democracy issue among the animals come up. ... Napoleon, based on Joseph Stalin, is the pig who becomes the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ... He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. ... Snowball, based on Leon Trotsky, is the pig who challenges Napoleon to run Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ...
In the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell uses characterization to symbolize certain figures and events of historical communist Russia, and conveys these aspects into a beast fable... " Napoleon was a large, rather fierce looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire boar on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation of getting his own way." ... In fact Napoleon was the only Berkshire boar on the farm and Stalin was the only Georgian revolutionary following Marxism under Vladimir Lenin. ... Though Stalin didn't speak much, when he did his words and actions would deceive his p...
George Orwell wrote a book called " Animal Farm", in 1945. ... The Animals on the farm are based on communist party leaders and the broad spectrum of the Soviet People, who were affected by Joseph Stalin. ... It stated that " no animal shall kill any other animal". ... They did kill other animals purposely. None of this would had happened when Jones, the origonal owner of the farm was in charge, before Napoleon. ...
It is seen in texts such as the film, Wag The Dog, the novel Animal Farm and in Martin Luther King's speeches. ... Many animals on the farm, Old Major and Squealor to be specific, used speech and language to gain power over other animals. ... He stressed to the animals the need to unite and rebel against the evil humans and take control of the farm for themselves. ... Animal Farm is most famous as a stinging critique of the history and rhetoric of the Russian Revolution. Retelling the story of the emergence and development of Soviet communism in the form of an animal fable, Animal Far...
Stalin In George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, Joseph Stalin, the Russian political leader, was compared to the character of Napoleon, the pig. ... When Jones (Czar Nicholas II) was overthrown everybody thought that it would be for the best, but it just led to more chaos in Russia as well as on Animal Farm. After the death of Old Major and the defeat of Jones, Napoleon led everybody to think that what he was doing to benefit himself was benefiting the whole farm. ... Orwell also made it very clear that he strongly disbelieved in Stalin and Trotsky's beliefs, for the fact that the a...
Collectitvization was the transformation of Soviet agriculture, from independent farms into a system of large state collective farms. ... So Stalin thought collective farms would be the only way to produce enough grain to meat his need of capital. At first collectitvization was voluntary, or so the peasants were told, when actually they were told to go to collective farms. ... The peasants would slaughter their own animals, and burn or bury their grain rather the let the government have it. By the end of the first 5 year plan, in 1934 70% of agriculture would be from ...
By the mid-1920's there were about 25 million farms in the Soviet Union but many produced only enough to feed the families who worked them. ... He felt that once the peasants saw the benefits of modern agriculture, they would join the state-run collective farms. ... In 1928 only 1.7% of the peasants were on collective farms but after the army or secret police came and "persuaded" them the total went up, in March 1930 there were 58%. By the end of the 1930's there was a total of 99% of peasants working or in someway helping collective farms. ... However livestock dropped drastically...
The theory behind collectivisation was that it would replace small scale un-mechanised and inefficient farms that were the common place in the Soviet Union, with large scale highly mechanised farms that would produce food far more efficiently. Collectivisation meant for peasants that they would have to give all their property to a collective farm and would have to sell most of the food they produced at low prices that had been set up by the state, and keep only the bare minimum for themselves. This was bitterly opposed by peasants who in many cases destroyed their animals rather than hand them...
The theory behind collectivisation was that it would replace the small scale un-mechanised and inefficient farms, with large scale mechanised farms that would produce food far more efficiently. ... For those with property, however, collectivisation meant giving up to the collective farms and selling most of the food that they produced to the state at low prices set by the state itself, leaving the farmers with a bare minimum. ... In an attempt to prevent resistance to collectivisation, the USSR used shock brigades to force reluctant peasants into joining the collective farms (1929-33). In resp...
Stalin's policy of collectivism entailed the confiscation of the bulk of the land and farm machinery of the peasants into the control of the state. ... Fixed quotas were set at each collectivised farm and failure to meet these quotas led to imprisonment or eviction. ... The result was that yields from these small plots were much higher than yields from collectivised farms as the peasants spent entirely disproportionate amounts of time and energy on their own private plots compared to the collectivised farms. However dissatisfaction continued among the peasants as the best land and animals...
