A_Comparison_Of_Animal_Farm_And_The_Russian_Revolution

A Comparison Of Animal Farm And The Russian Revolution George Orwell’s controversial novel “Animal Farm” has often been thought of as Orwell’s opinions, or interpretations of historical events that happened around the time it was written. The historical event that it is most often compared to is the Russian Revolution. “Animal Farm” and the Russian Revolution have many similarities and ideas. The characters, settings, and the plots are close if not exactly the same. In addition “Animal Farm” is a satire and allegory of the Russian Revolution , and it seems that George Orwell meant for it to be that way. Karl Marx was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century, he was an idealist who spent most of his life studying and writing about history and economics. Marx wrote books that stated that the only way to establish justice was for the workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. “Workers of the world unite” he wrote. “You have nothing to lose but your chains”. During the Russian Revolution Marx’s ideas were used by a man named Lenin who had overthrown Russia's irresponsible leader “ Nicholas the Second” Lenin had better ways to animal, house, russian, revolution, etalin, russia, farm, way, russian, lenin, over, one, novel, napoleon, workers, satire, chapter, world, threw, snowball, second, rule, represents, nicholas, marx, ideas, great, event, during, both, years, wrote, written, writing, two, trials, traced