Animal Farm: Analysis “All Men Are Enemies. All Animals Are Comrades.”
By: Nicolás Herschmann and Daniela Alessio
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell is an allegorical novel published on England in 1945. According to the author, this book reflects historical events leading up and during the Stalin era before World War II. It is the story of a revolution which goes wrong, based on the Russian revolution and Stalin’s use of power, the overall message is that man’s desire for power makes a classless society impossible. In the book, each animal represents a public figure or a type of person in real life. With this we can begin to develop the questions below in order to have a more complete idea of the meaning of the novel.
1) “All animals are equal”. Explain and expand your ideas.
Mr Jones was the owner of a animal farm, and he was careless and irresponsible with them. One day, he forgot to feed the animals, so they reveled and attacked Mr Jones, and from that day the animals start to live by their own, independent from their past owner. Next to this, the animals, in specially Old Mayor, create a philosophy called animalism, which consist of seven commandments, and the last one was the most important: “all animals are equal”. This is a contradiction in the story, because there were some creatures that work much more (as Boxer or Clover) and others who work less and had more power than others, as were the pigs Napoleon and Snow Ball. They excused this situation by mentioning that “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”
Comparing this context to the Russian Revolution, we can understand that Mr Jones represent Tzar Nicholas II of Russia, who was a man who don´t care about his people. Then, Napoleon represents Stalin; Snow ball, Trotsky, and Old Mayor represent Karl Marx, because he was the philosopher of the doctrine of the revolution. He believes in a communist society, with the concept of equality as the most important one. But this is a utopia, it cannot be applied in real life, so the concept that established
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell is an allegorical novel published on England in 1945. According to the author, this book reflects historical events leading up and during the Stalin era before World War II. It is the story of a revolution which goes wrong, based on the Russian revolution and Stalin’s use of power, the overall message is that man’s desire for power makes a classless society impossible. In the book, each animal represents a public figure or a type of person in real life. With this we can begin to develop the questions below in order to have a more complete idea of the meaning of the novel.
1) “All animals are equal”. Explain and expand your ideas.
Mr Jones was the owner of a animal farm, and he was careless and irresponsible with them. One day, he forgot to feed the animals, so they reveled and attacked Mr Jones, and from that day the animals start to live by their own, independent from their past owner. Next to this, the animals, in specially Old Mayor, create a philosophy called animalism, which consist of seven commandments, and the last one was the most important: “all animals are equal”. This is a contradiction in the story, because there were some creatures that work much more (as Boxer or Clover) and others who work less and had more power than others, as were the pigs Napoleon and Snow Ball. They excused this situation by mentioning that “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”
Comparing this context to the Russian Revolution, we can understand that Mr Jones represent Tzar Nicholas II of Russia, who was a man who don´t care about his people. Then, Napoleon represents Stalin; Snow ball, Trotsky, and Old Mayor represent Karl Marx, because he was the philosopher of the doctrine of the revolution. He believes in a communist society, with the concept of equality as the most important one. But this is a utopia, it cannot be applied in real life, so the concept that established