Its characters and scenes depicts the people and events of the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... This show the struggle of the animals against oppression and tyranny of the group of pigs in the farm. ... This is only a fewer of the changes made by the pig to the seven commandments. ... After the pigs start dealing with humans, they start walking on only their hind legs. ... Under Napoleon tough the animals must work hard to for fill the wishes of the pigs and produce milk, eggs and meat to support the pigs living....

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I also enjoyed the characters of the book. As the book progresses and the characters as presented to the reader. ... The pigs create the seven commandments for all the animals on the farm to live by but the pigs break all the commandments that they have created. ... The other animals are all inferior to the pigs. ... The windmill is ultimately to earn the pigs more money and increase their power .the pigs overlook the animal's oppressions. ...

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A raven and a pig symbolize religion and leaders of the Russian Revolution. ... Squealer is a pig who symbolized with the propaganda of the Russian Revolution called PRAVDA. ... Snowball, is a young, smart, and skillful speaking pig that has the characteristics of the leader, Leon Trotsky. ... His character is a symbolism of Joseph Stalin. ... Each character is very similar to its real-life counterpart. ...

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Although Orwell's originally titled novel, "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", combined with the use of animals as characters in the novel, may appeal to children, the content of Animal Farm goes beyond any magical or make-believe story. ... Being an allegory, most of the characters and events have a parallel in Stalinist Russia: Mr Jones, the evil farmer, represents the Russian Czar; Napolean, the power hungry boar, portrays the corrupt Joesph Stalin and Snowball, the idealistic pig, personifies Leon Trotsky, the clever partner of Stalin. ... From then on, the pigs, namely Napoleon, a "large, ...

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Even the minor characters of the story symbolize relevance with Russian history. ... A further instance of how the pigs resemble man is when the pigs move into the farmhouse and sleep in the humans" bed (70). ... All of the characters of the farm have a special role in Russian Revolution. ... As mentioned with the allegory, Old Major is the character of Karl Marx. ... 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." (118) The revolution had failed, and the animals were no better off from the...

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, and their last state was just as bad as their first and how the ruling pigs become more and more undistinguishable from their human neighbors. ... All the characters in the story represent the people involved in that period. ... Also a scene when the pigs who always protest were executed right there and then, and so were the other animals accused of being an ally of Snowball. ... Moreover, the attitude of the pigs, who were leaders in the farm, is similar to some of our government officials. As Orwell ends,as they look from man to pig, from pig to man - it was impossible to say which is wh...

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The pigs' decision that Snowball is responsible for the windmill's first collapse represents the psychological manipulation the pigs are capable of. ... Orwell uses his characters not only to portray leaders form the Russian revolution, but to also emphasize his main point of the novel. ... Although Orwell illustrates Snowball as a somewhat perfect character, he manages to refrain from putting snowball on a pedestal, and we see Snowball's faults quite clearly. ... Squeler is the pig who spreads Napoleon's propaganda between all the other animals. Squealer stands beind Na...

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Animalism symbolizes communism and the characters symbolize Russian leaders and people of importance. ... Characters The Pigs They symbolize politicians in a stereotypical sense. ... Old Major He is a pig who is very old. ... The old pig dies shortly after. ... The pigs learn to read and write very quickly. ...

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The pigs, in species and attitude, become more oppressive and heartless than the humans they ran off. ... "(They) 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."" ... By making the characters animals instead of humans, he could avoid all of the psychological complications that may accompany this (George Orwell). ... Smyer, had this comment on the work: Animal Farm is, in effect, a mixture of fantasy and harshness, of mysterious dangers happily overcome by some characters and terrible punishments falling on the h...

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George Orwell created many characters in his book who are represented in Stalins time. ... The secret police had a ruler, Stalin, as for the dogs did, who was Napoleon, a pig. ... Four pigs came up to Napoleon and the dogs, to confess their crimes. The pigs confessed their crimes, and the quote from the book that show this was, " When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded weather any other animals had anything to confess." ...

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In Animal Farm a key character that distributed propaganda to the Farm was Squealer. ... Squealer's continuous support to Napoleon alike of the Pravda, made him unpopular, due to the fact that he made up stories to cover for Napoleon's controversial decisions and he convinced the animals that the pigs were the leaders and the rest of the farm worked hard to please the farm overall, when really it was only to provide for the pigs. ... When Pilkington, a neighboring farmer who has been betrayed by Animal Farm, sends a reply for the cry of help from the pigs, he says "serves you r...

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Orwell has used the character of Napoleon as a metaphor for Stalin and so Napoleon the pig is a central figure throughout the story. ... Old Major is a major character in Animal Farm. ... Throughout the story it is clear that the other pigs fed off old Major's inspiration and beliefs only then to benefit from it themselves. ... Squealer is an interesting character. ... Another character is Muriel. ...

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The animals, led by the pigs, decide to start a revolution. ... The pigs in this novel end up taking advantage of the other animals. ... Many characters in this book symbolized Russian leaders from the Russian Revolution. ... This theme is evident in the novel through the character of Napoleon. ... What he meant was that pigs were high above all the other animals. ...

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The pigs formulate the Seven Commandments of Animalism, one of which is "All animals are equal", reflecting the American Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal." ... In Orwell's fable some pigs want to enjoy more privileges than others, so they just change the law to fit it their requirements. ... People must not be judged "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" - in the words of Martin Luther King in his speech "I Have A Dream". ...

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Both Stalin and the character Napoleon used purges to consolidate political power. ... For example, Napoleon killed, "the same four pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings," (92). ...

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The Cuba Crisis (1962) The developement of the Cold War until the Cuba Crisis (1945 - 1962) After the unconditional (bedingungslos) capitulation of Germany on may 8th 1945 the Cold War between the two power blocks USA and UdSSR started. The base of this argument was the different behaviour o...

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Normally it is hard to appreciate the characters or get attach to them really easily but in this story, that was not a problem at all. ... The grandfather is actually insulting the grandson to be a capitalist pig since he is leaving for America instead staying in Leningrad. ...

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