In George Orwell's novella Animal Farm, the author uses animals to critique the Soviet Union, Animal Farm is an allegory of the Soviet Union. The farm is controlled by a tyrant man Mr. Jones, and the animals are tired of working for him without any form of salary. Before his death Old Major the most powerful animal on the farm organize a big meeting to tell the animals what he’s thinking about the current situation, he’s telling them to revolt and to take control of the farm. The next day all the animals are planning the revolution, they chase Mr. Jones away and install Animalism which is Communism. My thesis is what are the differents types of government and why the animals chose Communism. In this paragraph I will be comparing there similarities between Communism and dictatorship. For example this quote is from the book “Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.” This quote doesn’t really make sense because if some animals are more equal than others they are not equal and I think that this is the problem with Communism it's impossible to be totally equal. In dictatorship you do as you are told and I think that in Communism it’s the same thing because in the book Snowball is chased from the farm by Napoleon. I think that Napoleon is a dictator because he’s using violence to control the animals like in a dictatorship …show more content…
Jones had the power, it was a totalitarian state. A totalitarian state is a government with a leader that has absolute control over all aspect of its citizens lives; opposing ideas are unwelcome, and those who hold or spread them are often severely punished. That is exactly what happened in animal farm because when the animals took control over the farm Mr. Jones came back to punish them. The opposing ideas in Animal Farm is animalism and the leader that has absolute power is Mr.