Russian Revolution And Animal Farm

In history and in stories, we can see how power can get into one’s head and make them do illogical and absurd things. In the fictional book of Animal Farm, the author: George Orwell, writes it as an allegorical fiction to the real life event of the Russian Revolution. Throughout the story, the reader can see how much Napoleon and Joseph Stalin have in common. This can be seen in the book and in real life during the expulsion of Snowball/Trotsky, the executions of Napoleon/Stalin’s enemies, and in the plan to improve the farm/country. From history and the books, both can inform us of how power can change a person. In Animal Farm, Orwell tells us how Napoleon evicted Snowball from the farm and shifted the power to himself. “... there was
We can see an example of this in Animal Farm and in the Russian Revolution. In Animal Farm, Napoleon has the animals build a windmill to help the farm. With the windmill, ¨ he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals’ backs. His imagination had now run far beyond chaff-cutters and turnip-slicers. Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater¨ (Orwell, pg 52). This shows how Napoleon decided to help the animals and the farm. In reality he tells them this to improve the moral of the animals and make them excited in building the windmill. Another example is also seen in the Russian Revolution. ¨ … Joseph Stalin launched a series of five-year plans to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower” ("Joseph Stalin."). Stalin also had proposed a plan to further the growth of the county, just like Napoleon who made a plan to build a windmill. From this we can see how both are