Leon Rom

“Animal Farm” is a movie/book (George Orwell) depicts and reflects on the events which ultimately lead to the Russian Revolution in 1917. Orwell claimed that ‘Animal Farm’ was written to state the the revolution always ended badly for the underdog, “hence to hell with it and hail the status quo”. Being allegorical in nature to the Russian Revolution, and the subsequent oppressive communist state, there are similarities and symbols of which are obvious. The first being the similarity between…

a.) Orwell’s Animal Farm is in allegory since it tells the Russian Revolution through a story using animals. For example, Mr. and Mrs. Jones represent Czar Nicholas II since the got overthrown out of power. The animals were basically taking over the farm. Additionally, the pigs represent the Soviet Intelligentsia since, they took control and were basically the high class of critiques and leaders. b.) Orwell’s Animal Farm also has rhetorical components of this allegory since he is warning all…

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” The symbolic and dystopian novel, Animal Farm was written by George Orwell; Orwell somewhat conveys to the reader of how the events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Soviet Union inspired him to write Animal Farm; Orwell’s purpose for writing the book was to inform the readers about how they should be aware of their government and question their actions if it doesn’t seem pleasing. Animal Farm has a few…

prime geographical position in central European Russia meaning they had access to their large population and control of their extensive train system. They made good use of their unified ideas and spread these effectively with propaganda. They also had Leon Trotsky who was a good leader that could boost morale: something that the White Army had a lack of, as well as discipline and support. Firstly, the Bolsheviks were successful due to their prime geographical position in Europe. The Bolsheviks…

Joseph Stalin was a very powerful and murderous dictator of the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Communist Party and became the leader of the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with an “iron fist” by having complete control over his people and leading his country through World War II and the start of the Cold War. When Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union, he also became a dictator. A dictator is a ruler with total power or…

Pravda was a daily newspaper that tried to prove labor activism and expose the working conditions in Russian factories. The first paper of Pravda was issued on May 5, 1912 in St. Petersburg by the Bolshevik's of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The paper was closed eight times in the first two years and every time it closed, the Bolsheviks reopened it under a new name "Worker's Truth," etc. Pravda represents Squealer in the book Animal Farm because Squealer tells lies to try to get everybody…

Leon Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory revolutionized the world of social psychology. It did so by focusing on the on-going cognitions in people’s minds, particularly- dissonant cognitions. His model stated that unpleasant feelings produced by dissonant cognitions motivate us to do something to change our state. My essay will focus on the reduction of dissonance, as I noted it to be an interesting phenomena which can be done in a multitude of ways- the most convenient being convincing…

anarchist immigrant, Leon Czolgosz. His foreign background was simultaneously brought into question and shattered the thin mirror of falsehood with which the American…

Leon Trotsky was another Marxist thinker who engage in a number of revolutionary insurrections and riots. His animal complement is Snowball, who, like Trotsky, perceive that a global series of rebellions was needed to achieve the revolution 's ultimate…

Communism Farm The book animal farm is about a farm of animals that have a revolution against the farmers and begin to run the farm on their own, but is this the only thing the book is about? The book is about more than just animals taking over a farm and running a corrupt government. The book is also about the time period it was written and the way things were run in the world war two era. The book was written by a man named George Orwell, he lived during that time and he had political…