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Stalin feared for his own power, exiling Trotsky to Mexico and being ruthless against any presumed to follow Trotsky. This bears an uncanny resemblance with Snowball’s situation. Although he did appear corrupt at times (taking the apples and milk), Snowball characterized bravery, goodwill, and consideration. Boxer symbolizes the often confused -but overall loyal- blind followers of Stalin (Napoleon) during his tyrannic reign, much like the dogs were Stalin’s most loyal followers, the KGB. Boxer’s statement “Napoleon is always right” is modeled after the famous statement “Mussolini is always right.” In many ways, I feel Old Benjamin, the old donkey, symbolizes Orwell himself, in the sense that he remained unchanged to the rebellion, warning of its consequences and

claiming it would not be as momentous as they were making it out to be. He is one of the few animals on the farm who is generally aware of what is going on at all times. Finally, Orwell’s seven commandments are a parody of the perverted ten commandments Tolstoy used in his writing. Animal Farm is a beast fable using animals to symbolize our faults and display our lack of efficiency, strategically sculpted so as to be understood and read by all. 1)FOWLER, ROGER. THE LANGUAGE OF GEORGE ORWELL (LANGUAGE OF LITERATURE). BOSTON: ST. MARTIN’S, 1996. 2) “GEORGE ORWELL.” MICROSOFT ENCARTA ENCYCLOPEDIA DELUXE, 1999 ED. 3) http://wwws-a.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/orwell.htm 4)http://despina.advanced.org/17120/data/bios/trotsky/BACKGROUND/BACKG1.HTML

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