History Repeats Itself In Animal Farm By George Orwell

History Repeats Itself

People say that we learn history because we don’t want to repeat it, but there are numberless instances of diffrent countries making the same mistakes and fighting for the same reasons. These wars weren’t just hundreds of years ago either, many current conflicts have resembled wars from hundreds of years ago, the war in Korea was devastating, and all the trauma was brought by the two leaders of the North and South who sought to control the whole country. Books have even been writen about the styles and similarites of wars, one such book is Animal Farm by George Orwell, where he explains a revolution through the use of an allegory. After doing reseach about the Korean Revolution, and examining the conditions of the two countries before, during, and after the war it is clear that the Korean Revolution and the revolution described in Animal Farm are very similar.

Revolutions genreally spawn from poor conditions of living and polital unhappiness inside of a country. Before the war, Japan signed the Annexation Treaty in 1910 they offically took Korea as their own (Park 1). This event caused Koreans to lose their identities and made problems inside the country (1), it has been described as though Japan, “Stuck a knife in old Korea and twisted it, and that wound has gnawed at the Korean national identity ever since”(2). Japan controlled Korea for 35 years before they surrendered them in fear of an atomic bomb (1). The country was then split in half along