Animal Farm - Show how Orwell captures the reader's sympathy for the animals so that he or she feels involved in their hopes, struggles and disappointments.

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Animal Farm is a fable, in which the animals on a farm rebel against their tyrannical master and take over the administration of the farm themselves. For many of the characters and events in animal farm are parallel to the characters that took part in, and the events that followed the Russian Revolution and dictorships in general. The Definition Of Animal Farm is simple; characters are used to represent ideas on the ways of how particular types of people might behave in the real world. Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution.

I fell that both Old Major and Boxer are pivotal characters in the novel each is closely linked to the eventual fate of the concept behind Animal Farm

Old Major is the leader of animal farm at the start of the book. Old Major has a dream one night and then wants to tell all the other animals about this dream he had. Old Major dream is that one day there will be a rebellion and the animals will rule the farm. He say’s there will be no more working harder, happier lives and more food.

Old Major is a prize middle white boar, he is a wise animal. All the others have  a lot of respect for him.

Old Major realises that human’s are the only threat to them. He said “Remove man and we will be free”. Man does not give he just sells and makes a living for himself not the animals. Man does not give milk, lay eggs, too weak to pull the plough and to slow to catch the rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. Napoleon Said, “All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”

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Old Major encourages all the animals on the farm to rebel against human’s he uses his speech which he is excellent at to get people on his side.

 Old Major tells us about a song called Beasts Of England which they soon get to learn and love and they sing it at the end of his speech.

Old Major thought a lot about others and not just himself. He was thinking for the best and future of other animals. Old Major realised that life probably wasn’t going to get better unless he lived his dream and make ...

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