Animal Farm: An Allegory Of The Russian Revolution

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The book “Animal Farm,” was an allegory of the Russian Revolution. There were many similarities and differences between the movie and the book. The differences between the development of the characters changed the plot the movie. In the movie, things that never happened in the book were present, like the animal revolt and many other small differences. The movie left out many minor details and a character that represented a major group during the Russian Revolution. Despite these differences, they movie followed the fairly close. Rather than the animals speaking, as it was in the book, a narrator told the story in the movie. In the movie not all the animals could talk. The Beasts of England was hummed when the animals sang it. When they talked, they told about how horrible and unjust the humans were they felt was done to them Old Major died when he was giving his speech in the movie, while days pass between his speech and his death in the book. A major event that set the movie apart from the book was how it ended. In both adaptations the animals look through the windows of the house and see a blending of humans and pigs, as if they had become one and the same. Once the animals see the pigs in the house, they charge in and the watcher assumes that the animals take over, but in the book the animals don’t. Also towards the end of the book, …show more content…

Mollie wasn’t a vital character, but she represented the people who were perfectly fine with the government. In the book, she was portrayed as a horse that liked being owned by humans. She ended up leaving the farm. One of the final times she was mention in the book, she was seen getting her nose stroked and she had a ribbon in her mane. Snowball was another character that was not mention too often, he didn’t even get blamed for the windmill collapsing. The last time he was seen in the movie was when Napoleon's dogs chased him off the

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