He is the proof that language is a weapon to manipulate the population. He convinces animals to follow and believe Napoleon, just as Molotov used any lie to convince people to follow Stalin. Squealer is depicted as being a “big mouth”, which changes and manipulates the commandments. Napoleon uses military forces (his nine trained dogs, representing the secret police) to intimidate other animals and consolidate his power, whereas Snowball is intelligent, eloquent and less devious than his counterpart.
Orwell opposed Napoleon and Snowball just like Stalin and Trotsky were. He’s the character linked to my personal document, which is a depiction of what would be a communist country if the essence of communism was respected. Old Major is the one who truly believed that animals should be equal, and that since they are the workers they should be the ones who profit of its benefits. Old Major can be compared to Karl Marx, founder of communism who died before the revolution.
Ironically, although Orwell didn't consider himself a novelist, he wrote two of the most important literary masterpieces of the 20th century.Īnimal farm, despite it’s fairy tales appearance, is actually an essay denouncing the totalitarism of Joseph Stalin.Īnimal Farm is an allegoric retelling of the 1917 Russian Revolution and it's aftermath.Įvery character symbolizes an actor of this rebellion: Mr Jones represents Tsar Nicholas ll, he’s irresponsible and cruel with his animals: he lets them starve and beats them with a whip, just like the Tsar who was a bad leader, brutal with his opponents. Orwell's writing career spanned nearly seventeen years. Orwell died in 1950, only a year after completing 1984, which many consider his masterpiece. His two greatest anti-totalitarian novels are Animal Farm and 1984. Orwell became a sharp critic of both capitalism and communism, and is remembered as an advocate of freedom and a committed opponent of communist oppression. He could not turn a blind eye to the cruelties and hypocrisies of Soviet Communist Party, which had replaced the semi feudal system of the tsars with the dictatorial reign of Joseph Stalin.
Unlike many British socialists in the 1930s and 1940s, Orwell was not enamoured of the Soviet Union and its policies, because he didn’t consider the Soviet Union a positive representation of the possibilities of socialist society.
George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, born in 1903 in India, during the time of the British colonial rule. Pb: How can a writer denounce the flaws of a system without namely pointing them?
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