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or bending the truth to justify Napoleon’s actions. (http://www.globalserve.net/ glamont/frames.htm) Boxer represents the common people of Russia who constantly follow their leader by working harder despite any doubts they may have in those leaders. Mollie is a character that represents the vain people in Russia at the time. She didn’t think much about the farm and only cared for the beauty of herself in which she ends up leaving the farm. The vain people in Russia didn’t care about the revolution, only about them, and went to other countries that offered more. Benjamin is much like the skeptical people in Russia. He is old and suspicious of the way things are working out on the farm. He thinks nothing ever changes and his suspicions end up being true. The people in Russia

thought the revolution wouldn’t change anything and just thought as the rulers as crazy (). As you can see the characters in Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution are much alike. The theme in both the novel Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution is basically the development of dictatorship. Throughout all the events in the novel and revolution, you can see the accomplishments and the failures in forming a dictatorship or any form of government. Another theme is that anything that sounds like paradise could quickly take advantage of you and change your whole vision of that paradise. Like, with Animal Farm all the animals thought the farm would be heaven without Jones, and it turned out to be equal or even worse without him running the farm. Many themes could be learned from

this story and revolution, but very few are obvious. People are always looking for Utopia, but Orwell’s belief is that it does not exist. But the search for Utopia could lead you to be taken advantage of by others. Animal Farm reveals clearly a way that Utopia is searched for but is never found. 34c