Animal Farm Hitler Comparison

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Animal Farm

Most people are aware that Animal Farm is a book that describes communism, but what they don’t know is that it features many other events that have occurred in history. Animal Farm also makes connections to both the industrial revolution and the rule of Hitler in the second world war. Animal Farm is able to draw similarities to the morals of business men in the Industrial Revolution, the rule of a dictator like Hitler, and communism all throughout this one short book. The ethics of business men during the Industrial Revolution can be described as crooked. These men would take advantage of their laborers in order for them to maximize their profit margin. Napoleon acted like those business leaders, always being fueled by his greed. The animals of Animal Farm went through the entire process of a revolution. The animals were still working their hearts out for someone else, except now all animals are equal since there are no more humans. Technology played a major role in eliminating the painstaking work the animals had to face each day. Even though they didn’t actually produce inventions of their own they modeled other inventions of the past, such as the windmill. Advancements such …show more content…
Hitler used methods of singling out a group of people and making them seem like enemies. Hitler did this to the Jewish population of Europe, and the pigs did this to humans in Animal Farm. Humans were singled out especially the land owners of the Manor Farm, where the revolution was occurring. The Jones family (the owners) was now made out to be the enemy, the opposers. The pigs encouraged this by saying things like “surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back? Once again the argument was unanswerable. Certainly the animals did not want Jones back” (Orwell, 40). The other animals were convinced that forcing the Jones out was the best thing for the whole populations, similarly to how the Germans were convinced about the Jews in
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