Animal Farm an Allegory

Animal Farm Animal Farm is an allegory because of the similar characters, situations, and events based upon the Soviet Union. Animal Farm summarizes Communist Russia in a story about animals on a farm. George Orwell creates a novel using animals to represent the totalitarian regime in Russia from 1920-1953. George Orwell uses many events from the totalitarian regime in Russia for his novel Animal Farm. The context is the only difference. Before the Russian Revolution, Karl Marx created communism, a theory biased on the idea everyone is the same, that nobody is better, and that all people are equal. In Animal Farm, Old Major, an old pig, taught the rest of the animals, animalism. Animalism is the same thing as communism. They both state the fact that everyone is equal. In the Russian Revolution there were strong supports of communism. They would do everything Stalin wanted until they could no longer work. At the point when they became completely useless to him, he would kill them. In Animal Farm, the same situation happened. George Orwell created a horse named Boxer. Boxer believed in the Animal Farm and animalism. He was a hard worker that could do all that Napoleon asked of him. Then one day Boxer is injured, and the only way of recovery is a hospital. Napoleon tells him and the rest of the animals that he will get help for Boxer, but they were betrayed. Napoleon sent for the horse slaughter instead, and by the time they realized it, it was too late. Napoleon convinced everyone it wasn’t the horse slaughter thou and the truck was only used for horse slaughtering a long time ago. During the Russian Revolution there were also skeptical people that were unsure about the communism ……Benjamin in Animal Farm represented the people in the Revolution that were unsure about communism. In his case it was him skeptical about the animal farm and animalism. Conclusion. Animal Farm includes many events that happened in the revolution with similar characters that