Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegorical and dystopian novel that reflects on the Russian Revolution. In Animal Farm, the animals of the Manor Farm rebel against their irresponsible and cruel leader, Farmer Jones, and chase him off the farm. Subsequently the animals attempt to form a government in which “all animals are equal” (18), which is the concept of “Animalism”. But this fails, and ends up returning where only one class prospers and the others suffer; the pigs govern and live without work and get fat (87), while the rest of the animals work without eating almost anything. This parallels the Russian Revolution, the peasants cause a revolt and overthrow Tsar Nicholas II, and communism is created. But then Stalin takes over and everything goes back to how it was before, probably worse. "In George Orwell's Animal Farm, Old Major's speech and the song "Beasts of England" paint a picture of a Marxist utopia because they both discuss the abuse of power by leaders, they state that everyone should be equal and incite rebellion" To begin with, the Old Major's speech and the song "Beasts of England" represent a Marxist utopia because they both discuss the evil nature of power and how leaders abuse their people. Old Major begins his speech by stating how "the nature [of animal life] is miserable, tiring and short" (5), and then goes on to explain the "miserable conditions" (6) in which animals live. Old Major says this is to conclude that "the main cause of hunger and overwork" is "man" (6). He goes on to say that animals "produce"(6) all the work and food, while man does nothing but "[steal]" the "product" of animals, yet he is still "lord of all animals" (6). In "Beasts of England" he uses wo...... middle of paper ......s" and "all animals are companions" (7). In "Beasts of England" he shows how all animals are equal and all together saying "cows and horses, geese and turkeys" (10) By putting all these animals together a sense of unity and solidarity is created throughout his speech he uses the word "comrades" (5 ), with this word he makes all the animals equal to each other, they are all "comrades" (5), no one taller than the other also says that "weak or strong, intelligent or simple, we animals are all brothers", portraying the idea that it does not matter what abilities animals have animals, they will be accepted and will not be persecuted for this reason. This goes along with when Karl Marx states that "when all are equal there would be no ruler over anyone as the ownership of everything would be mutual between all the people of that society."