Thursday, October 2, 2008

Similarities between Animal Farm and Hitler

From what I could tell from the reading, Major, the pig in the story Animal Farm, does not like humans at all. Major thinks humans are evil and need to be gotten rid of, which is why he gives his speech to all the farm animals. Major believes the farm animals should unite and get rid of all the humans, similar to the idea of Hitler telling Germany they need to get rid of all the Jews. The point I am trying to make is Major and Hitler are the same person. Major hates humans, Hitler doesn't hate all humans, but he does hate Jews. Major wants the humans to be gone, Hitler wants the Jews to be destroyed. Major unites all the animals to join him in the fight to exterminate all humans, Hitler unites all of Germany to destroy all the Jews. If you look at both characters very carefully, you will notice all of these similarities. If you know any history at all, you will realize Hitler was an obnoxious madman and didn't care about anyone except himself and all he wanted was power. Now, if you look up what obnoxious and greedy means in a dictionary, you will find the word pig beside it, which is exactly what Hitler was. A power hungry, obnoxious pig. The reason the teacher had us read these two passages from Animal Farm and Mein Kampf was to show us the similarities between two different characters from two different books, the two characters being Major and Adolf Hitler. If you want to know more about what Mein Kampf or Animal Farm is about, go to http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/ or http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/animalfarm/ and you will get some general ideas about what each book is about.

1 comment:

CASS. said...

wow this really helped.