Wine, Swine and Karl Marx Nickie Cross 10/9/02 During the time when Orwell is writing animal farm, communism is on the rise and becoming a problem in quite a few writers' minds. Many of these writers presented their thoughts on the subject in the form of a satire. In other words mocking something in hope for change. Although Orwell agreed with many of Marx's ideas, he did not agree with how the communist party was carrying …
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…Farm, it's a use of allegory. The farm does stand for the U.S.S.R. while Old major represents Marx. Many other pigs resemble heads of the communist party. The story animal farm is true to how the communist party ruled, not to mention how they proved that Marxism failed everywhere it was instituted. This novel serves to represent communism in a light that is quite brutal concerning the effects and reasons behind it.