Russian Revolution And Animal Farm Essay

The 1945 novel 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell is an allegory for the Russian Revolution specifically for a variety of themes, such as lies and deceit, manipulation, and dreams and hopes. The novel shows great similarities to the Russian Revolution through these themes. In Animal Farm, Orwell portrays a society that is somewhat messed up that promises things that which people betray, which is rather quite alike our society where one is higher up than another and to be intimidated is very often. Lies and deceit, manipulation and hopes and dreams are themes that are portrayed and displayed in Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution.

Animal farm is very much an allegory for the Russian Revolution through the theme of lies and deceit. Throughout

the Russian Revolution there was probably more lies told than truth. This also happened in Animal Farm, for instance, "Napoleon was well aware of the bad results that might follow if the real facts of the food situation were known." Napoleon clearly knew that he was lying and being deceitful the entire time, but that didn’t stop him nor the Russian Revolution. In Animal Farm the pigs made up that he, Snowball, had sold himself to Fredrick and that Fredrick and Snowball were planning to attack Animal Farm. However then Napoleon had been lying to the animals and was in a secret agreement with Fredrick. Napoleon was a liar and was deceitful which was very much like the people throughout the Russian Revolution. A sentence in Orwell's Animal Farm quotes, "Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility." This quote is quite true except for the fact that Napoleon wanted to be the leader so much so he lied to become the leader. Lying was like a sport for them. And that is very much like the Russian Revolution therefore, Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution.

Manipulation also played a huge role in the themes of Animal Farm.

Some reasons why are the following: "He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white." Squealer was a manipulator and nearly everything that came out of his mouth was manipulative. Another piece of evidence is when the birds objected to 'four legs good, two legs bad' and Snowball manipulated them and said that a birds wing can be regarded as a hand. The pigs were amazing at manipulating almost like it was breathing. For instance all they ever did was manipulate, like when the pigs took the milk and apples and then lied and said they had to have it for their health and that they don't like apples or milk, but if they don't have it they won't be healthy and Farmer Jones will come back. And that is what we call manipulation but manipulation isn't just shown in Animal Farm, it's shown in everyday life, in society and was really shown throughout the Russian Revolution. Realistically, nothing can be obtained without manipulation, intimidation, lying and deceiving, and Orwell's novel displays

that.

But the Russian Revolution wasn't all that bad; many of them had dreams and hopes. So did the animals such as Old Majors dream that he had that inspired him to dream big and start a revolution. Many of the animals on the farm had dreams and hopes as well. Hopes for a great life, hopes to retire and sit in a nice green pasture. Hopes that they'd be happier. Hopes that the hard labor would be over. As much as they were happy and proud of their work, it came to a point where it seemed that it didn't really matter. Boxer had dreams to retire and daze in the sun on a green pasture admiring the nature and his friends. But he never got to fulfill that dream and hope because the pigs ruined it. They sent him to a glue factory and Boxers dream was destroyed. The pigs' dream was able to become alive and real and happen. Napoleon was leader, that was his dream and he got it. Everyone has dreams; dreams to be something, to have something, hopes to be someone important or even to just have one person. But those dreams and hopes don't always happen. Someone can very easily rip that from you. But you are able to fight back and say no this is what I want. You just have to believe. And the reader begins to think that the animals had that because they rely on a leader. They think that they are to be ruled and not to rule. And dreams and a sense of hope are very much found in Animal Farm as well as the Russian Revolution.

To conclude, George Orwell's Animal Farm is very much an allegory for the Russian Revolution specifically and for a variety of themes related to lies and deceit, manipulation and dreams and hope, more generally.