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Essay / The historical content of Animal Farm by George Orwell
One of the most influential English writers once said: “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others. » Born in June 1903, died at the age of 46. Eric Blair was a well-known author and journalist. Pen named George Orwell. He lived a miserable life as a child, humiliated for wetting his bed at boarding school to allow him to write his experiences in a novel. Since then, George has been writing about all his life experiences. He witnessed imperialism at its worst, seeing his own government execute the country's innocents. He witnessed the Spanish Civil War; the actions of communists in Spain showed him how erroneous the idea that Russia is a socialist state is. This led to the writing of the political history Animal Farm which reflects the event of the Russian Revolution. The Russian Revolution is a series of events that led George Orwell to write Animal Farm. It all started when the idea of communism spread in Russia. Since Nicholas II inherited the tsar throne in 1894, there has been chaos. There are two types of people: the upper classes and the working peasants. In 1917, Karl Marx's theory of communism became reality; A complicated civil war began and successfully overthrew the tsar and monarch their family had held for three centuries. The exact same story concept happened in the Animal Farm novel. Mr Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, did a poor job, the animals were starving, mistreated and hated life. The old major had the rebellion theory, which caused the animals to rebel against Mr. Jones and kicked him off the farm. The power struggle between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky was vast. When Lenin was ill, he had to choose between middle of paper... but that will never happen because there must always be someone in charge. Works Cited • “Animal Farm”. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, August 12, 2013. Web. December 8, 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm• “Communism.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, July 12, 2013. Web. December 7, 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism• “Does Animilism Ever Work? Yahoo! Answers. Yahoo!, and Web. December 8, 2013. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071206070330AAzhBeP• “Joseph Stalin.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, May 12, 2013. Web. December 7, 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin• “Leon Trotsky”. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, May 12, 2013. Web. December 6, 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky• “Russian Revolution.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, January 12, 2013. Web. December 8, 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution