Comparing Old Major And Martin Luther King Jr.

Compare and Contrast
    In class we talked about two speeches, Old Major's speech from Animal Farm and Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. Between the two speeches there are more similarities than differences. Both Old Major and Martin Luther King gave a speech with their dream to inspire others to live a better life and future. A difference is Martin Luther King Jr. wanted peace among everyone, but Old major wanted rebellion against the humans. That's just an example of what similarities and differences I will be talking about in this essay. Let's start off with the similarities.
    Both of the speeches by Old Major and Martin Luther King Jr. are trying to give the others hope and a better life and future. You can tell

that by the way the leaders Old Major and Martin Luther King talk because they are speaking the truth on how their lives are really our in that time and they are trying to stand up. Also, at the ends of both the speeches they sang inspirational songs, “Beasts of England” by Old Major and “My Country ‘Tis, of Thee” for Martin Luther KIng. Throughout their speeches they both wanted rights. In Old Major's speech he wants to live freely without work and have food without having to work. And in  Martin Luther King's speech he wanted freedom from the white people’s criticism and racism. An other similarity is both the leaders Old Major and Martin Luther King both are not afraid to stand up for what is right because they both spoke publicly and  proudly to everyone about their dreams and on what they think  should happen.
The differences between these two speeches are Old Major saw other races as enemies (humans) but, Martin Luther King did not, he accepted everyone even if they mistreated him.

For example Old Major said, “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”- Old Major Another difference is Martin Luther wanted equal and far rights, but Old Major wants to overthrow the humans and not have equal rights. For example Martin Luther King said,”With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”- Martin Luther King  The last difference  between these two speeches Old Major is trying to persuade them, but Martin Luther King is trying to tell them. For example Old Major said,”But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? No, comrades, a thousand times no! The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animals than now inhabit it. This single farm o we have. If ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep — and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining. Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings”- Old

Major
Old Major and Martin Luther King are different, because Old Major is just an idea of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin but Martin Luther King Jr. is a actual person and not a representation of someone. He is more important than a symbol in the story Animal Farm. Martin Luther king Jr. was a great man who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement and led many speeches like this exact one “I Have a Dream.” Overall I think the”I Have a Dream’ speech was great. Throughout this compare and contrast essay I learned that Old Major main thing he was  interested in was rebellion and Martin Luther King Jr.main thing he was interested in was unity in peace and to have peace among everyone.