Animal Farm Violence

Being that George Orwell’s Animal Farm is meant to portray an allegorical meaning for the events of the Bolshevik Revolution, as well as the Stalin Age in Russia, one can expect a lot of violent scenes. However, these scenes don’t merely exist for their own sake. Rather, they exist as a way to contribute to the overall meaning and purpose for the making of Animal Farm. For it is through those violent scenes that Orwell attempts to to not only condemn, but ultimately humiliate the figures and events from the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, up to end of Stalin totalitarian regime.

Due to the fact that the Bolshevik Revolution was one full with aggression and blood, Orwell has the animals of Animal Farm experience a similar event through ‘The Revolution’. That of which, is done in a purposefully manner in order for Orwell’s disgust through the animals. And although this scene in both Russia and the new ‘Animal Farm’, initially is seen as a grand victory to be followed by prosperity and equality, it proves to be the complete opposite since everything that follows the Revolution is tarnished by far more aggressive, bloody, events that make the Revolution look like a mere quarrel.

Just like Stalin--after he assumes power--Napoleon has constant purges on the people he rules over. These violent scenes also serves as a contributor for the overall meaning / purpose for the making of Animal Farm. That is because, Orwell uses these scenes to point out not only the corruptness of the New Animal Farm, as well as that of the Soviet Union, but also to reveal the either cowardly, advantageous, weak or greedy figures who either stood as a bystander by doing nothing, or as a catalyst to further the power of either Napoleon of Stalin; which in the end, were the ones who paid the price for it through exploitation, laborious exile, abuse, or even