Ways of Viewing Animal Farm Historical Allegory, Fable,...

Animal farm tells the story of a group of animals rebelling successfully against the previous owner, Mr Jones, who was considered to be a tyrant of animal/manor farm. The farm was planned to be communist place but because of most of the animals gullibility and unintelligence the pigs who where smarter took control and made a hierarchy and exploited the animals. Then eventually the pigs became more like humans doing things like walking on two legs and wearing cloths. However would animal farm be more interesting as a historical allegory of a simple fable? For this story to work the writer, George Orwell, asks us to suspend our beliefs and imagine that animals can talk, have and show human characteristics and emotions. Also we are told†¦show more content†¦The Russian revolution is shown in the book to be the expulsion of Mr Jones, the civil war as the battle of the cowshed, Stalin begins a dictatorship shown to be the building of the windmill and Trotsky getting exiled as the elected leader snowball being chased and barred from the farm. These all show that Animal Farm is a symbolic story and has most of the main events of the revolution shown in the book. Even the characters in the book shown the qualities and dreams of people involved in the Russian Revolution with Leo Trotsky having the same intensions and attitudes as Snowball, Joseph Stalin only cared for power like Napoleon and Squealer having a big mouth talking a lot and manipulates and commands like Pravda, the Russian Newspaper in 1930s, and tells us the animals in the book were symbols for the people in the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm would be much less interesting without it being an allegory as you would lose all the historical content in the book like the similar events in Animal Farm when compared to the Russian Revolution. Furthermore there would be no connection between the characters like Snowball and Trotsky as a result of having no allegory Animal Farm would make it less advanced and les interesting. I think animal farm is more interesting as a historical allegory because of amount of similarity to the Russian Revolution to do with the characters and plot of Animal Farm. Animal Farm is much longer than a fable with