George Orwell's Animal Farm-Stalinist Russia
George Orwell, The events and people involved in George Orwell’s Animal Farm are in direct relation to the events and people involved in Stalinist Russia. This is through the means of satire. The fable creates an allegory in its representation of key motives, personalities, and life during and eventually after the Russian Revolution. The most notable spark for the Russian Revolution was discontent in the working classes. These people made up the majority of the population, but were almost totally unrepresented in the decisions of their country. Before Stalin, there was much political unrest in the Soviet Union which had gone unnoticed, or rather ignored until dispute was unmistakeable, “...clearly the conditions were present by the opening
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It was not Napoleon himself who participated in the physical chase that occurred, but those who had did it were a product of Napoleon’s guidance. “Soon after the revolt of the animals, Napoleon takes nine puppies from their mothers to ‘educate’ them. The puppies end up being his personal bodyguards and secret police force” (Novels for Students). These puppies are in direct relation to Stalin’s own secret police, “Behind Stalin's power lay a monstrous policy of terror. It reached its height between 1934 and 1939, when Stalin and his secret police carried out mass arrests, executions, and deportations” (“Joseph Stalin”). Snowball is out of the picture now. But somehow, like in the Soviet Union, Napoleon has to justify what has happened so as not to repeat the rebellion. That is where the pig Squealer comes into place. Orwell characterizes him as being naturally persuasive, in the way he talks so much and so quickly that the animals, with the predisposed idea that pigs are more intelligent, have no mind of their own and assume it’s their fault that things don’t make sense. Squealer talks about how Snowball never actually wanted them to win their first war against the humans at all, “In fact, it was he who had actually been the leader of the human forces, and had charged into battle with the words ‘Long Live Humanity!’ on his lips. The wounds on Snowball’s back, which few of the animals still remembered to have seen, had been inflicted by Napoleon’s teeth.” (Orwell
It was not Napoleon himself who participated in the physical chase that occurred, but those who had did it were a product of Napoleon’s guidance. “Soon after the revolt of the animals, Napoleon takes nine puppies from their mothers to ‘educate’ them. The puppies end up being his personal bodyguards and secret police force” (Novels for Students). These puppies are in direct relation to Stalin’s own secret police, “Behind Stalin's power lay a monstrous policy of terror. It reached its height between 1934 and 1939, when Stalin and his secret police carried out mass arrests, executions, and deportations” (“Joseph Stalin”). Snowball is out of the picture now. But somehow, like in the Soviet Union, Napoleon has to justify what has happened so as not to repeat the rebellion. That is where the pig Squealer comes into place. Orwell characterizes him as being naturally persuasive, in the way he talks so much and so quickly that the animals, with the predisposed idea that pigs are more intelligent, have no mind of their own and assume it’s their fault that things don’t make sense. Squealer talks about how Snowball never actually wanted them to win their first war against the humans at all, “In fact, it was he who had actually been the leader of the human forces, and had charged into battle with the words ‘Long Live Humanity!’ on his lips. The wounds on Snowball’s back, which few of the animals still remembered to have seen, had been inflicted by Napoleon’s teeth.” (Orwell