Read the passage from chapter 7 of animal farm.
which historical circumstance most likely influenced the
writing of this passage?
if she [clover) could have spoken her thoughts, it would
have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at
when they had set themselves years ago to work for the
overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and
slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that
night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she
herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a
society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all
equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong
protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of 1
ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech
instead-she did not know why—they had come to a time
when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling
dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your
comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking
crimes
life under the rule of lenin's communist russia, in which
everyone shared and prospered
the farm during world war ii, when many people died
from battle as well as starvation
agriculture and farming under the reign of the
romanovs, when there was food for the rich
tyranny during stalin's dictatorship, in which he distorted
the tenets of communism