Representation of 'Animal Farm'

When I read the novel of Animal Farm written by George Orwell, I think that the novel just tells about the animals because the characters are the animals. But when I read entirely and get explanation from my lecturer, I know that the novel not only tells about the animals’ life in the farm but also tells about the animals which do rebellion to the farmer who always enslaves them. But behind the novel, in fact it represents about revolution of a country which is headed by two super powers will cause one of them domineer a dominance entirely because everything which they do never the same and they are always contrast.

It is like Snowball and Napoleon in that novel, they are pigs in ‘Animal Farm’. In the beginning, they are very energetic to rebel humanities because they think human is their enemy that has made them like slaves and they do rebellion and make a new revolution. But when they both do rebellion and make a new revolution successfully, instead they are always not alike. Napoleon always opposes whatever Snowball does.

Because of Snowball is smarter than Napoleon and he has good speech, he always leads the others to do something but it is always different with Napoleon. It is proved when Snowball wants to build a windmill in order to shorten the work week and provide the farm electricity, but Napoleon opposes it. When Snowball has finished design of the building of windmill, Napoleon orders dogs to expel Snowball. He is expelled from the farm. The design of the building has finished, Napoleon continues Snowball’s idea with confessing that the idea is his. But I think it is actually just Napoleon’s strategy to domineer dominance entirely because he may not be better to lead the other animals than Snowball.

And representation of the novel is about revolution of country. It is Russia. Revolution which is pioneered by working class which is headed by two of the workers wants to pull down the capitalist system as a ruling class. They rebel all of ruling class and change to be communism system. Because of the novel is allegory from really life, the characters are almost similar. In that novel the characters which do rebellion are Snowball and Napoleon and in really life they are Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. They are people who do rebellion in the beginning of revolution, but they always oppose like Snowball and Napoleon. And someone who says in the beginning that he hates capitalist system is Stalin. But in the end he joins with governments which adopt the capitalist system.

You can see that there is no true maintenance of dominance. It’s just temporary dominance which emphasizes his importance.