Leon Trotsky

police that enforced political repression during the Great Purge/Great Terror in the Soviet Union. Additionally, Napoleon had Snowball chased away from Animal Farm by his army of dogs when he felt threatened by him, in comparison, Stalin ordered Trotsky to be killed. Considering the multiple similarities, it's undeniable that Napoleon resembles Joseph Stalin. The Russian Revolution and the traits of Joseph Stalin are accurately symbolized in a unique manner in Orwell’s Animal Farm. Stalin used…

The novel Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution due to the parallelism between characters and historical events. Orwell’s goal in writing Animal farm was to illustrate an ruthless, totalitarian government during the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the novel “Animal Farm”, Manor farm represents the setting of the revolution in Russia. The main characters from the novel were leaders such as Napoleon, Snowball, Mr. Jones and Old Major, which represents the authoritative figures during…

The perfect example of this is Leon Trotsky who wanted to spread the revolution around the world but Stalin argued that the party must protect and rebuild Russia first. By using his supporters and creating deals with other powerful members of the party, Stalin got Trotsky exiled to Siberia and fifteen years later, he got him killed by his secret police. Stalin even purged his own members because he felt…

emerges as the leader of the Animal Farm after the Rebellion. He used military force to intimidate the other animals and combine his power. In his almighty talents, Napoleon proves more betrayal and deception that his opponent Snowball. Snowball, Leon Trotsky, is the pig who challenges Napoleon for control of the Animal Farm after the rebellion. He is intelligent, passionate, eloquent, less subtle and less devious than Napoleon. Snowball appears to win the loyalty of the other animals and…

In the essence of politics, it is better to be loved than feared as the latter can be a detriment to the individuals within a society. The universal consequence of being feared, in politics, is that it can lead to revolts and cause anarchy, which in turn is adverse for the politicians themselves. The effects of being feared in politics is explicit in various texts and text forms that have been written by many authors influenced by their historical context. This includes George Orwell’s…

In this story, one of the goals was to relate Animal farm to the Russian Revolution that took place in 1917. The Russian Revolution resulted in a deadly toleration government that ended up being worse than the one they overthrew. Many of the characters in Animal Farm were made to portray the main parts of the Russian Revolution. The farm where this story takes place is a model for Russia, and the main characters such as, Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon, all portray the figures in the Russian…

The Animal Farm and Russian Revolution have many similarities. George Orwell based the Animal farm on the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm and Russian Revolution were both brutal and had a ended to it. This paper will show how George Orwell based Animal Farm on the Russian Revolution. An overview of the Russian Revolution of 1917, two revolutions, the first of which, in February [March, New Style], overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October [November], placed the…

Snowball is the Animal Farm counterpart to Leon Trotsky, one of the first leaders of Communist Russia. Snowball and Trotsky were both intelligent, and had many ideas for the greater future for their respective lands. Snowball was the one to lead the animals in the Battle of the Cowshed, in which the animals had won from a human invasion for the attempt to take back the farm. Trotsky was the leader of Lenin’s Red Army, which won many battles for Russia. There is…

way a government should be ran, and like the Russian Revolution they both ended up being the worst way to run a government. The last way Communism is shown is that they both start off with a leader who had a partner and took power from Snowball (Leon Trotsky) and snowballs partner Napolean (Joseph Stalin) ended up taking control from snowball and started to abuse his power making the higher class better and giving the pigs more power. The…

Upon first glance, the reader of Animal Farm would think that it is a story about farm animals taking over their farm and struggling to maintain an equal leadership. However, a deeper analysis of the novel would reveal a more allegorical connection to the Russian Revolution. From the autocratic leadership of the pigs resembling the dictatorship of the Russian Revolution, to the leaders of the farm trying to stop the spread of Animalism, and the working animals resembling the working class,…