George Orwell's, Animal Farm, was written to illustrate the events of the Marxist Revolution of 1917. He wrote this book during the time of the German attack against Russia. ... Snowball was the most sympathetic animal that could be leader of the animal farm. ... In Chapter IV when the pigeons had delivered word that there was a mob of humans ready to attack Animal Farm, Snowball knew just how to handle the situation (Orwell, pg 55). ... George Orwell felt very passionately about his genuine concern for the world's opinion of the Soviet Union. ...

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Animal Farm: Satire on Communist Russia Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is at the surface a simple novel of a group of animals living and working under the oppression of a tyrannical farmer who successfully overthrow him with a plan to live independently which backfires on them and ends them up under the even more dictatorial rule of the pigs. ... "Animal Farm," wrote Orwell, "was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole." Through this essay, the social and political situation presente...

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Animal Farm, George Orwell's novel about a group of animals who run their own farm, may appear to be nothing more than a "fairy story" at first glance. However, the events in Animal Farm are allegorical to Soviet Russian politics from 1919-1953. ... This is paralleled in Animal Farm when Napoleon suddenly forces Snowball out of the farm and for no apparent reason animals were killed for being counterrevolutionary. ... This is paralleled in the book with Napoleon's wish to build the windmill to make the farm more efficient. ... What ultimately happened though is that after an alli...

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