Animal Farm

During the story Animal Farm, each character develops a personality that resembles someone in the Russian Revolution. The author, Orwell, meant for this to happen. This story is really about what Orwell is saying about those who became the leaders of the revolution.


It seems as though the pigs have taken control over the farm. Even though it is a communist farm, there are still leaders that appear to be ruling it.  Those three leaders in the story are Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer. There were also three leaders in the real Russian Revolution. They are Trotsky, Stalin and Lenin. Throughout the first few chapters I thought that Snowball resembled Lenin since he was intelligent, although he changed. Snowball is truly Trotsky because he is the only one of the leaders that has disappeared. Napoleon is definitely Stalin since he has a strong military-like feel on life. Lastly, Squealer is Lenin because he was the first ruler, until Stalin took over. This happened in the book too.


Orwell didn't really like the idea of the Russian revolution. He created this book to sort of make fun of it, and let people know what his opinion was. That's how the novel Animal Farm tells the story of the Russian revolution.