The simpler level of the Animal Farm, is a humorous fable with animals.
“…For younger readers it is a hilarious fable of the farmyard.”-Animal Farm
If you do not read this book carefully, this book is just a humorous fable with talking animals in it. When you do not want to think deeply about some thing, you can read this book as a pure entertainment. Also, the simpler level of this book makes the younger readers enjoy the book with out any difficulties. The book having two levels entertains both the mature and younger readers. This is why this book is read in variety of generations. A 4th grade student can enjoy this book, and also a grown up adult will probably enjoy this book by thinking deeply about what this book is really signifying. So, the simpler level of the book introduces the young readers the joy of reading.
The animals represent different people in the book Animal Farm.
“Moses claimed to know the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain…”
In the quote above, it explains how Moses tries to convince everybody in to believing about the wonderful world Sugarcandy Mountain. Sugarcandy Mountain is just like a paradise for the animals to go to after their death. Sugarcandy Mountain is signifying heaven, and Moses represents religion. This means any religion. Like Moses representing religion, in this book, all the characters represent something or somebody in the Russian revolution. But this book means more. Although this book is based on the Russian revolution, this book is not only about the Russian revolution. The clearest example of this is Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon represents Stalin. Stalin and Napoleon were both tyrant leaders, who received all the profit with out producing things by them selves. On the other side was Snowball who represents Trotsky. Snowball and Trotsky were both brilliant speakers, and they tried to spread revolution. So as you can see the characters in Animal Farm each represents specific human personalities. This technique makes the reader easier to see the traits of the person. This technique also makes the reader easier to understand. Plus, the book becomes more entertaining to read with different animal characters, then only with human characters. By using different animals, it makes the book more attractive than using humans. This is probably why many books, comics, and movies use this technique so much. For example, the fable Little Red Riding Hood uses this method. This method is especially popular in fables. It makes the younger readers easier to realize the message of the book.
Many of the events that happen in Animal Farm are symmetric to the events that happen in the Russian revolution.
“The hens, said Napoleon, should welcome this sacrifice of their eggs…”
As it is stated in the quote above, in the book Animal Farm, Napoleon tries to convince the hens to hand over their eggs to Napoleon. He explains that it is for the farm, not only for his profit. But this is just a lie to convince the hens. Plus, they are trying to trade with the humans! The hens question them selves. Weren’t the humans all evil? They start to protest against Napoleon by dropping the eggs from their nests and destroying them. Nevertheless at the end the hens are forced to hand over the eggs to the pigs by being heavily stressed by Napoleon. A similar event occurs in the Russian revolution. The peasants are announced to hand over their farm to the government. Many peasants refuse to hand over their farm and protest against the government by burning their farms. But, at last the government wins the land. Symmetrical events like this occur many times in the book Animal Farm. For example, the struggling of power between Snowball and Napoleon is very similar to the struggle of power between Starlin and Trotsky, which happened in the Russian revolution. By looking at these examples, you can see that the book Animal Farm is based on the Russian revolution. The writer, George Orwell wonderfully replaces the episodes of the animals, to what happened in the Russian revolution.
The book Animal Farm is not only about the Russian revolution. The writer George Orwell is using the Russian revolution for the basis of this story to make it simple. But what happened in this book can happen to any countries in the world. This is not only about communist countries. It signifies how a country can easily corrupt under a tyrant leader. Without even the people knowing, a terrible leader can easily control the country. By reading this book, we can see that we should try to save our own country by our own hands. We should not depend on the government, and we should not 100percent believe what the media says. The citizen of the country needs to keep their eyes wide opened. You never know if the truth is being told. Did the Russian people know what was going on? Did they THINK they knew what was going on? We should never forget what happened to Russia by reading this book, Animal Farm. You never know when it will be for YOU to stand up and go against the tyrant leader. So, please do not forget about Animal Farm and the Russian revolution. Even though you think that this will not happen to you, it might happen… You never know.