George Orwell's Animal Farm

George Orwell writes Animal Farm as a criticism about the Revolution in Russia during the First World War and when Joseph Stalin takes over the Soviet Union and converts it to Communism. The book is a direct reflection of real life people and events that happened during this time. Fear and ignorance has a great effect on the way people lived their lives and similarly the way the animals lived their lives on the farm under their leader. It also shows that any rebellion against their country proved to be fatal and therefore, they were unable to break away. In Animal Farm, Orwell uses symbolism, irony, and imagery to convey the violence, corruption, and real life in Russia during this time through the animals on the farm.

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There are numerous battles between the animals and humans and on both sides someone dies. Each has their own tactics to defeat the other and uses different weapons upon their opponent. Eventually, once the humans accept that the animals cannot be defeated the attacks lessen. This is when Napoleon decides to start getting into business and trade with the humans and farms around them. Their business to trade was about Napoleon wanting to expand the farm and build the windmill. Even though the Commandments says that humans are bad, Napoleon convinces the animals that they must work with them to help the farm prosper The windmill is one of the main focuses of the book because it represents how much the pigs control every other animal in the farm by convincing them that the windmill is necessary. It is built multiple times because it is destroyed by the humans invading their land. Once the violence stops upon the humans, it is then projected onto the animals. Napoleon’s police force is a pack of dogs, who he has trained himself and they only obey him. He then announced that anyone who was against him and part of the rebellion would die, “Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood.” (Orwell