The comparison of characters, items, and events compared between Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution is shown greatly through Orwells unique use of symbolism. Orwell expressed his concern that Socialism had taken a harsh fall under the control of Russias dominating government of communism; this is what inspired him to write Animal Farm.The term Animalism is introduced to readers for the very first time in this novel. It is used to describe the movement in which the animals are working toward. An outcry for revolution from the animals begins early in the novel when their lifestyle is rapidly transformed into a means of slavery. The animals are poorly fed and over worked. Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is constantly drunk and regularly forgets to take proper care of the animals. The withholding of food is what finally forced the animals on the farm to rebel. In Russia, there were many food shortages which caused many civilians to demonstrate rebellion. When soldiers were ordered to suppress them, things got out of control. Soviet workers and soldiers formed a special group and established a government. It is clearly shown in Animal Farm that if a population is suppressed and not allowed to accumulate things for themselves then an overthrow of the government that is suppressing them will be the result. This process it lead by Old Major. Old Major is an old prize pig on the farm that bluntly mentions the idea of revolution to all the animals. Old Major's role compares to Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution as well as a criticism of his convictions of democratic Socialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Like Old Major, Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be n...
