Old Major In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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If a little girl picks out a book called Animal Farm and has her mom read it to her, she thinks it is nothing but butterflies and fairy tales. Little did she know, this book has a total opposite meaning to it. The author George Orwell wrote this book off of his experience of the Spanish Civil War and wanted people to see the truth in what was actually happening behind closed doors. Animals that seem just like pigs, sheep, horses, and dogs are so much more in history, dig deeper and find the deeper meaning.
It may seem that Old Major doesn’t have a big role in Animal Farm, but he is the reason for this entire book. Old major is the symbol for a man called Karl Marx and they are similar in many ways. Karl Marx was a famous philosopher who had the idea of a communistic world and only had one solution; a rebellion. “Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?”(Orwell 7). In the rebellion, the working class is oblivious to what is actually going on; they only see
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Leon Trotsky was the leader of an army in the Russian Civil War and had Stalin oppose him and Snowball lead the Battle of Cowshed and had Napoleon oppose him as well. They were both great speakers and had a way with words when it came to persuading their audience. They both also had a plan for their people “Trotsky proposed the five years plan and Snowball proposed the plan to build a windmill” (Leon Trotsky vs. Snowball). Their plans never became reality because they tried to fight Stalin and Napoleon for the USSR. Unfortunately the same ending happened to both of them, they lost their leadership and had to leave their “country” because of the new leader. Some people may mistake Snowball as Vladimir Lenin who was the head leader of the Russian Civil War but Trotsky was the second hand man which is more up Snowballs