Animal Farm: Allegorical Insights into Modern Revolutions

Russian Revolution and its allegory, compared to modern revolutions

Revolutions have taken place almost everywhere around the world, so why don't we compare one of the biggest revolutions allegory, to an other one to see if it is still relevant to read the allegory to today, so let's look at the real thing versus the allegory. Animal Farm, was the allegory for the Russian Revolution, simplifying it to farm animals running their own farm. From executions, ambition, power struggles, and propaganda were shown in this allegory. So, what was the thing that was most pronounced in this revolution, to see if it is still relevant to today, was revolution and corruption. So, let's look at why we're looking at Animal Farm and to its real counterpart,

Let's look at our first example. The plot of Russian Revolution and Animal Farm’s Revolution are very similar. In which how the events goes. In Russia and Animal Farm, the people (either people or animals) take power over from the government, and they choose a leader. Then after the fact, another leader takes control over the last, and it stays like that for a really long time. “In spite of the shock that snowball's expulsion have given them...” Now, once this happened, there is no animal on the farm bold enough, smart enough, and brave enough to counteract what Napoleon has done, making him a permanent leader. Onto our next example. Some characters easily relate to things, and other people from Animal Farm to the Soviet Union. Looking at the leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, we can easily see a correlation between him and the ‘newer’ leader of Animal Farm, Napoleon. “...There was only one candidate, Napoleon...” Both of them, Napoleon and Stalin both were the only ones who were to be chosen to rule these new republics. The setting for the third example was a devastating thing within both Animal Farm and Soviet Union let’s look at it. The story of Animal Farm takes place on a farm, and similar events have happened in the Soviet Union with farms, except animals did not take over. In the Soviet Union, Stalin had been taking away farmers from their land, and we see a similarity with the farm animals. But the animals have been doing it themselves, not the leader. “Jones was expelled, and the manor farm was theirs.” Jones who was the farmer lost his job due to animals exiling him, while Stalin exiled farmers from their farm as