Animal Farm Quote Analysis
In the year 1945, George Orwell wrote the book known as Animal Farm. In this fable Orwell used animals to represent important people or factors during the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s take over or rise to power in the 1900’s. He used one character or animal to represent the entire working and peasant class in early communist Russia during that time. The animal he picked to represent them is the cart horse Boxer (LitCharts.com).
Boxer does a fantastic job of portraying the working class and peasants of communist Russia. He works all day much and pulls more than his weight. I plus he always believes that Napoleon is correct in everything he says and does a quote he uses for this is “Napoleon is always right” (ch.5). This portrays the working …show more content…
This is similar to Animal Farm because only Napoleon had a say on anything on or outside the farm. Like deciding to plow the area where the retired animals were supposed to live after they came of age. Though that area was supposed to be a retirement place Napoleon decided to do what he wanted without letting anyone else state their opinion on this. Then when Napoleon was having some pigs and chickens killed or executed with the nine former puppies that he reeducated they even went after Boxer who has done nothing to oppose or upset Napoleon. This was almost exactly like one of Stalin’s purges. “ An average estimate is that in the Soviet Union as a whole, about 500,000 were executed in 1937-39 and somewhere between 3 and 12 million were sent to labor camps.”(russiapedia) this is just an estimate of the people Stalin had killed or sent to work their life’s away. Some of those people were people of power who could overthrow Stalin however most or the majority were just ordinary people the workers and the peasants. Stalin got rid of all the of churches and religion throughout all of Russia. He did this then used the media to help cover this up and then but statues of himself in the places of former worship. This gave the workers and peasants only one thing to look up to and that was Russia's government and consequently Stalin
Boxer does a fantastic job of portraying the working class and peasants of communist Russia. He works all day much and pulls more than his weight. I plus he always believes that Napoleon is correct in everything he says and does a quote he uses for this is “Napoleon is always right” (ch.5). This portrays the working …show more content…
This is similar to Animal Farm because only Napoleon had a say on anything on or outside the farm. Like deciding to plow the area where the retired animals were supposed to live after they came of age. Though that area was supposed to be a retirement place Napoleon decided to do what he wanted without letting anyone else state their opinion on this. Then when Napoleon was having some pigs and chickens killed or executed with the nine former puppies that he reeducated they even went after Boxer who has done nothing to oppose or upset Napoleon. This was almost exactly like one of Stalin’s purges. “ An average estimate is that in the Soviet Union as a whole, about 500,000 were executed in 1937-39 and somewhere between 3 and 12 million were sent to labor camps.”(russiapedia) this is just an estimate of the people Stalin had killed or sent to work their life’s away. Some of those people were people of power who could overthrow Stalin however most or the majority were just ordinary people the workers and the peasants. Stalin got rid of all the of churches and religion throughout all of Russia. He did this then used the media to help cover this up and then but statues of himself in the places of former worship. This gave the workers and peasants only one thing to look up to and that was Russia's government and consequently Stalin