Carter
English 9
15/14
Comparison Essay
Animal Farm and The Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict of 1946
In writing Animal Farm, the author Orwell illustrates disillusionment with socialist revolution. Although the novel has often been linked with the Russian Revolution of 1916, it still has contemporary relevance. The Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict parallels Animal Farm in three different ways, rallying flag, despotism, and equality.
When joining in to sing an anthem, you are making a commitment to stand by and believe in what it truly represents, this makes a very good rallying tool. In the animal farm, Old Major introduces the anthem when he is talking to the animals in the barn. Beasts of England was …show more content…
In the Animal Farm, after Old Major had influenced the others to rebel against Mr. Jones, they had come to a conclusion on who would be the new ruler since Old Major had passed away. Napoleon and Snowball were rallying against one another to become the new leader of Animal Farm to lead their comrades into victory. Just in the conflict between the Palestinian and Israelis, they debated for years on end, who would rule the historical land and who would have to leave. A huge conflict broke out and a war began. – (woolf 4-10)As the Palestinians being Snowball and the Israelis being Napoleon, after you compare each other to Animal Farm, they both wanted to be rulers and leaders. At the end of the book, the animals started to act for themselves and do what they wanted to do. There was no leader that would rule over them and some of the commandments had changed to new perspectives. Interestingly enough, the Palestinians had also changed their perspective to the way the Israelis looked at it as the years went on. As Orwell portrays despotism through Animal Farm, he takes consideration again towards the way it is written and makes it true by relating it to reality through the