Realism In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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The book Animal Farm counteracts fantasy with the true events of the Russian Revolution and the leadership of Joseph Stalin. One firm example of this is the depiction of this realism in the cart horse Boxer from the Animal Farm and that of the working class of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution. The similarities between the two are almost spot on with history.

One example of this similarity is the way both were the powerhouse of their nation. Boxer was the most persistent worker on the Animal Farm and always put in extra work whenever he could. He hauled heavy stone from the rock quarry in order to create the windmill for the good of the Animal Farm. In the knick of hardship, he continued for the hope that things would grow better with the completion of the windmill.

The working class were very similar in the way they did things. The working class of the Soviet Union felt eager for change after the Russian Revolution and worked seemingly endless hours under the advisement of Stalin. Most worked extra hours of laborious work for the hope of better lives. Each working tirelessly on the infrastructure and making vast improvements to the country.

Both Boxer and the working class were not well educated. Boxer in the story was not given a solid education by the pigs. He had a very limited reading vocabulary and only knew the first four …show more content…

One of these ways was his labor in the farm. Once again, he did all the extra work and was the backbone of the farm. Once he became injured in the second construction of the windmill, the pigs took full advantage. Instead of sending him to a veterinary clinic, they sold his body to a neighboring glue company and used their profit to buy a case of alcohol. In the speech Old Major gave in the beginning of the book, he said that under animalism no animals would be butchered and ironically specifically said that Boxer would not be made into

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