Volume : V, Issue : IV, April - 2015

Symbolism of symbolism in Animal Farm Criticism

Dr. Ibrahim Adam Saide Daier

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This paper depicts the concept of symbolism of symbolism in animal farm criticism. The novel explains that 
the cloudy areas will be paraphrase with a philosophy of stratifications among the people and the communities. One of Orwells goals in writing Animal Farm was to portray the Russian (or Bolshevik) Revolution of 1917 as one 
that resulted in a government more oppressive, totalitarian, and deadly than the one it overthrew. Many of the characters 
and events of Orwells novel parallel those of the Russian Revolution: In short, Manor Farm is a model of Russia, and old 
Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the dominant figures of the Russian Revolution. Mr. Jones is modeled on Tsar 
Nicholas II (1868–1918), the last Russian emperor. His rule (1894–1917) was marked by his insistence that he was the uncontestable ruler of the nation. During his reign, the Russian people experienced terrible poverty and upheaval, marked 
by the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1905 when unarmed protesters demanding social reforms were shot down by the 
army near Nicholas palace. As the animals under Jones lead lives of hunger and want, the lives of millions of Russians 
worsened during Nicholas reign. When Russia entered World War I and subsequently lost more men than any country in 
any previous war, the outraged and desperate people began a series of strikes and mutinies that signaled the end of Tsarist control. When his own generals withdrew their support of him, Nicholas abdicated his throne in the hopes of avoiding 
an all–out civil war — but the civil war arrived in the form of the Bolshevik Revolution, when Nicholas, like Jones, was removed from his place of rule and then died shortly thereafter.

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IBRAHIM DAILER Symbolism of symbolism in Animal Farm Criticism Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 4 April 2015


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