The Downfall Of Communism
...to the Russian Revolution and Communism within it. Although most of these references are masked they still have a very powerful message. The message reveals what happens when power comes into the hands of those not worthy or ready for it. The Communist Party had a dream where everyone was equal. This dream did not last very long. The main theme behind Animal Farm is that Communism was doomed to fail from the beginning.
George Orwell felt that people were blind to the corrupted and evil side of Communism. He felt the need to warn everyone of the deception and failure of the Communistic revolution. He also believed that making people aware of what was going on in the inner circle would help society. So Orwell decided to express all of these things in Animal Farm, and by throwing many parallelisms in the book. Orwell wrote about how Communism promised equality to all by showing all of the Animals working and eating together as a unit. Things did not remain this way for long. Just as the people involved with Communism found out that they were not really free and equal, the animals in Animal Farm found out that freedom and equality came only when the leaders of the revolution were obeyed. Resources, food, and labor were not shared as the leaders now were becoming overcome by their newly acquired power.
The book begins with all of the animals attending a meeting held by the eldest pig, Old Major. Old Major tells all of the animals of a dream he had. A dream in which all animals were treated equal and one in which there are no humans to enslave them. This mirrors Karl Marx's idea of an equal world and "is very similar to the Communist Manifesto" (Meyers 105). Old major then informs his comrades that he is going to pass on soon. The animals are both happy and sad as they begin to think about the news that they have just heard. Old Major, shortly after the...
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