...outlook on the Russian Revolution and its leaders by using animals to represent their human counterparts. Orwell criticizes communist society and points out weaknesses in its governmental figures. He calls for a close examination of the treatment of Russian citizens and questions whether they had any rights at all. Most of the characters in Animal farm can be clearly identified with figures of the Russian Revolution. The book actually carries out much like the actual revolution. It starts out with hopes of an empire where all are equal and the unfair unjust leader, the czar, is thrown out. Then it moves on to where some individuals begin to take more power than is rightfully theirs. At the end the rulers have completely taken over and the kingdom is as it was under the original rulers.
Inside the animal farm there were very specific classes among the animals. At the top were the pigs. Each pig represented the most important players of the revolution. Old Major is identifiable with Lenin. He was an ideologist who dreamed of a wonderful government where all the animals could be equal and the humans, or the czars, were pushed out. Unfortunately his dream would never materialize. Then we are left with his followers. The first is Snowball who believed blindly in Old Majors ideals. He expected all the things Old Major expected in a new government, such as the welfare of the animals. In the Russian Revolution his counterpart would be Trotsky. Trotsky believed and wanted the same things as Lenin, and wanted to continue what Lenin had started. Then comes Napoleon. Napoleon was selfish and greedy. He did not want to share the decision-making position with any other animal. This was the same for Stalin. At first Napoleon and Snowball started sharing the decision making and would have debates about what course of action they would take. This worked for a very short...
