The story taught us a lot, within the dictator Napoleon is, and his way of reigning, we can see a lot of historical event from it.
Today, I’m going to thoroughly analyze the story with historical references.
First, the most obvious connection is the Soviet Union, Stalin and Lenin. Which represents Napoleon and the mayor. Of corse, the concept is good, everybody is working hard and doing there job except for the cats, who represents the minor ones who wish to get paid without efforts, and Molly, the ones who went relying on capitalism. But the power is easily overused turn into dictation.
But how did Napoleon lead the animal farm without much rebel?
It’s actually simple, to make the animals( people ) stupid, and believe they are living in a paradise with honor and life has been better.
It’s a commonly used strategy, since Qin dynasty, the emperor, Qin Shihaung, ordered the people to burn the books, kill the intellectuals, leaving the stupids to work for him,in order to avoid revolution of his despotic rule.Additionally, North Korea, Kim Jone-eun, brain washes his people in the belief of how amazing it is to live in North Korea when outside is full of the evil America, and only the savior, Kim himself would set them free.
But that’s not it, as I was saying, Napoleon has all the faults and mistakes blamed on Snowball. Exactly how Kim Jong-eun defame America and the western counties.
A way to let the people forget how ridiculous the rulered them, is to have a clear goal or enemy, in the story, it has both. The goal is to build a wind-mill and the enemy is all humans. In which is easily to find the same strategy, for instance, while in the Koxinga era, his has the propaganda of defeat the Qing dynasty and recover the Ming dynasty with the enemy, obviously, Qing dynasty.
But how did Napoleon secure his power, with army, and fear of the people, the “dogs”. He had dogs that overthrew Snowball, and make sure nobody dares to rebel. In the ww2, Hitler has a group of secret agent, Gestapo. Also in the Ming dynasty, the emperor has 錦衣衛, so that people (animals) will have the fear of making the wrong statements or talking about the wrong subject, so that they would be careful and won’t have the courage to overthrow the current government ( Napoleon).
In a chapter where the dogs tried to attack Boxer, but Boxer not just defeated the dogs, and nearly killed one of them. My explanation is the writer tries to drop a hint that people ( Boxer) has always been stronger than the ruler and their army ( the dogs ), just like the French Revolutions, the America Independent war, when people are tired of there king, and decided to overthrow them, then establish an equal government, leads by the period people. Kinda like animal farm at the beginning.
Another point, as soon as the animal controlled the farm, Jones and the other farmers started to plan to take back the farm, at the pub, together, while the animals were also making friends with the other farmers, even trading. WW1 started with two parties, the allied nations that concludes, French, British and Russia, while the Germans and Italians and Austrians had set up there own parties, the allies. Or even in the the Spring and Autumn and the Warring states period, where different powers will come to allies and defeat the others.
At last, I’ll end this with a famous saying, history is a tool to check is we made the same mistake twice. But from what I see, many things are going on exactly how Orwell described Animal farm. This is not just a book of sarcasm, but a book that can apply on many situations, to check if your on the wrong track.
Animal farm, a book full of twists and surprises. et Union, Stalin and Lenin. Which represents Napoleon and the mayor. Of corse, the concept is good, everybody is working hard and doing there job except for the cats, who represents the minor ones who wish to get paid without efforts, and Molly, the ones who went relying on capitalism. But the power is easily overused turn into dictation.
But how did Napoleon lead the animal farm without much rebel?
It’s actually simple, to make the animals( people ) stupid, and believe they are living in a paradise with honor and life has been better.
It’s a commonly used strategy, since Qin dynasty, the emperor, Qin Shihaung, ordered the people to burn the books, kill the intellectuals, leaving the stupids to work for him,in order to avoid revolution of his despotic rule.Additionally, North Korea, Kim Jone-eun, brain washes his people in the belief of how amazing it is to live in North Korea when outside is full of the evil America, and only the savior, Kim himself would set them free.
But that’s not it, as I was saying, Napoleon has all the faults and mistakes blamed on Snowball. Exactly how Kim Jong-eun defame America and the western counties.
A way to let the people forget how ridiculous the rulered them, is to have a clear goal or enemy, in the story, it has both. The goal is to build a wind-mill and the enemy is all humans. In which is easily to find the same strategy, for instance, while in the Koxinga era, his has the propaganda of defeat the Qing dynasty and recover the Ming dynasty with the enemy, obviously, Qing dynasty.
But how did Napoleon secure his power, with army, and fear of the people, the “dogs”. He had dogs that overthrew Snowball, and make sure nobody dares to rebel. In the ww2, Hitler has a group of secret agent, Gestapo. Also in the Ming dynasty, the emperor has 錦衣衛, so that people (animals) will have the fear of making the wrong statements or talking about the wrong subject, so that they would be careful and won’t have the courage to overthrow the current government ( Napoleon).
In a chapter where the dogs tried to attack Boxer, but Boxer not just defeated the dogs, and nearly killed one of them. My explanation is the writer tries to drop a hint that people ( Boxer) has always been stronger than the ruler and their army ( the dogs ), just like the French Revolutions, the America Independent war, when people are tired of there king, and decided to overthrow them, then establish an equal government, leads by the people. Kinda like animal farm at the beginning.
Another point, as soon as the animal controlled the farm, Jones and the other farmers started to plan to take back the farm, at the pub, together, while the animals were also making friends with the other farmers, even trading. WW1 started with two parties, the allied nations that concludes, French, British and Russia, while the Germans and Italians and Austrians had set up there own parties, the allies. Or even in the the Spring and Autumn and the Warring states period, where different powers will come to allies and defeat the others.
At last, I’ll end this with a famous saying, history is a tool to check is we made the same mistake twice. But from what I see, many things are going on exactly how Orwell described Animal farm. This is not just a book of sarcasm, but a book that can apply on many situations, to check if your on the wrong track.
Animal farm, a book full of twists and surprises.
