History WMG / AnimalFarm

[[WMG: In the 1999 film, Napoleon, Squealer, and the rest of the pigs were eaten by the dogs of the Animal Guard]]

* With a bit of extrapolation, one might say this is how the 1954 animated adaptation ended. Napoleon looked suitably terrified when his "followers" stormed the house, and killing him and feeding the remains to his dogs would be both ironic and efficient. Of course once they had eliminated the pigs and consumed all the spoils left behind in their hoard, the animals would [[EvilPowerVacuum see a power vacuum open up]], to say nothing of [[BittersweetEnding encroaching starvation and another harsh winter just around the corner]].

[[WMG: Literature/AnimalFarm is actually a StealthSequel to Literature/CharlottesWeb. Old Major is actually Wilbur.]]

''“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”''

* With a bit of extrapolation, one might say this is how the [[WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm 1954 animated adaptation]] ended. Napoleon looked suitably terrified when his "followers" stormed the house, and killing him and feeding the remains to his dogs would be both ironic and efficient. Of course once they had eliminated the pigs and consumed all the spoils left behind in their hoard, the animals would [[EvilPowerVacuum see a power vacuum open up]], to say nothing of [[BittersweetEnding encroaching starvation and another harsh winter just around the corner]].

The text even say it loud and clear: "Everyone indeed, except the cat, who had suddenly disappeared just before Napoleon ordered the animals to assemble". Think about it for a moment. She was disappeared and never mentioned again just before a mass execution committed by dogs. If nothing else, these dogs were both cruel and petty.

* Not so much Wild Mass Guessing as CriticalResearchFailure Guessing: American troops did not take part in the Russian Revolution and if they had, they wouldn't have fought on the side of the Bolsheviks.

* Most people have [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell mixed feelings about the end of the Cold War]]. A lot of people think the death of Communism in Eastern Europe is a good thing, but Orwell would have imagined that one elite was simply being replaced by another. In Russia, communism was replaced by the Russian oligarchs, many of whom were former Russian bureaucrats. It wouldn't be hard to write a pig based on Yeltsin: alcohol is what drove Napoleon further down the rabbit hole, and Yeltsin was a notorious drinker. So if Napoleon's regime were to collapse, it would be replaced by a pig who acted completely drunk, and while it would be less brutal than Napoleon, he would anger the animals by destroying machinery with his incompetence.

* Yeah no, it's very clear that Snowball represents Trotsky, right down to his InsufferableGenius personality and banishment. Also from the perspective of Orwell as an author American capitalism being represented possitively makes no sense, Orwell was a dissident socialist through and through and his ultimate point with Animal Farm is not so much that socialism is bad as it is that Bolshevism is capitalism with a new coat of paint.

* With a bit of extrapoliation, one might say this is how the [[WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm 1954 animated adaptation]] ended. Napoleon looked suitably terrified when his "followers" stormed the house, and killing him and feeding the remains to his dogs would be both ironic and efficient. Of course once they had eliminated the pigs and consumed all the spoils left behind in their hoard, the animals would [[EvilPowerVacuum see a power vaccuum open up]], to say nothing of [[BittersweetEnding encroaching starvation and another harsh winter just around the corner]].

[[WMG: The cat, after dying, was reincarnated, and spread among other fictional works, and it's fictional soul hasn't ever stopped since.]]

[[WMG: If anyone adapts Animal Farm today, he would have wrote a pig based of Yeltsin]]
* Most people have [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell mixed feelings about the end of the Cold War]]. A lot of people think the death of Communism in Eastern Europe is a good thing, but Orwell would have imagined that one elite was simply being replaced by another. In Russia, communism was replaced by the Russian oligarchs, many of whom were former Russian bureaucrats. It wouldn't be hard to write a pig based of Yeltsin: alcohol is what drove Napoleon further down the rabbit hole, and Yeltsin was a notorious drinker. So if Napoleon's regime were to collapse, it would be replaced by a pig who acted completely drunk, and while it would less brutal than Napoleon, he would anger the animals by destroying machinery with his incompetence.

** Helping an ass with a comb over take over a farm in America.