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The character Old Major in the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, can represent Karl Marx from the Russian Revolution. In Animal Farm, Old Major explains to the other animals how someday the farm would be run by animals. He wants changes because of the way Mr. Jones, the farmer who cares for the animals, treats them. Old Major wanted radical changes, as did Russian Revolutionist Karl Marx. Karl Marx was a man who called for change in Russia’s government system and wrote about these changes in his book, The Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx was not too impressed with the leadership of the czar in Russia during this time period, and he wanted the Russian citizens to join him in standing and supporting communism. As in Animal Farm, Old Major represents Karl Marx by wanting to be free from the czar (Mr. Jones) and for him and the animals to life better, happy lives.

In Animal Farm, Old Major taught a song to his fellow comrades (animals) called ‘Beasts of England’. In this song, Old Major sings of a world in which all the animals would live together in peace without humans and running their own lives. As Old Major sang a song to remind him and the other animals of their hopeful future, Karl Marx wrote a book. Old Major sang a song; Karl Marx wrote a book called The Communist Manifesto, which explained how someday Russia would turn to Communism from life under the czar. Old Major’s song represented Karl Marx’s book most likely because both are talking about change in government, change in the way the citizen’s lives, and change in their futures. George Orwell did a great job in putting symbolism into his novels. In the book Animal Farm, the character Old Major represented Karl Marx.

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