History in Literature

Over the course of time we have seen revolutions have fail time and time again. The people strive to make their society have a better status, so that everyone unites in happiness. Most often it’s the person who wants to help their state that become the cause of these revolutionary patterns. Are revolutions making people power hungry or were they just waiting for their moment to shine and take control, ruining Marxist idea for utopia through communism? Influence over people can have quite an effect on most leaders. They enjoy being needed by the population that they don’t have realization they’re killing it. Commonly there is a philosopher present, for example Locke and Marx. Both men strived to send a message of equality and unity. Marx pushed people for communism, and most took a liking to at first. Attracted to this perfect world Marx had in mind, most people didn’t have a clue how to create such a magnificent situation, let alone make it perfect. The Chinese and Russian revolution had the same circumstances in government. Both counties determined that their leaders were no longer fit to be their dictator. In hope that the society would become a utopia the government quickly executed both dictators.  The working class and peasants were usually the ones to be awfully resentful of this action. In time they came to support the ideas of an equal place, leaving the grief of their fallen hero behind. A great number of them had no idea that they were supporting all kind of propagandas. Normally peasants were told what the new laws and expectations were because of illiteracy. Just like in Animal Farm when Clover thought the rules slowly kept altering with new unfair changes to the wall, of the seven commandments. But she had no proof to herself that they actually were changing. Ignorance was used as a great weapon for the up rising tyrant, as the lower class blindly walked through the darkness of the revolutionary cycle.

            Injecting fear into the souls of many the Chinese and Russian population, all feared any sort of rebellion, not wanting to suffer anymore. Each person kept quiet speaking of government negatively, in fear of being accused of a false action or an untrustworthy citizen. When the country needed to show their spirit, they would to keep suspicion away.

            Cycling back almost completely around to the 8^th phase, another dictator, is what happened in Animal Farm the pigs became the new rulers of the farm. Creating an opposite image from what they had originally had hoped for. Now all animals weren’t equal, and the pigs now all began to act more like the sinful humans. Killing animals or sentencing them to death was symbolism of what Stalin did. Murdering more than 8 million in fear but being executed himself.