Moses+the+Raven

=__﻿﻿Moses the Raven __= =//"Religion is the opiate of the masses"// --Karl Marx=

1.1 Background 1.2 Parallel 1.3 Useful Quotes 1.4 Additional Information 1.5 References ||
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- Moses the Raven is a paradox to many of the other animals found on Animal Farm
- Moses is the Joneses favorite pet, and a very clever speaker - Moses often speaks to the animals about a mysterious country known as "Sugarcandy Mountain", a place that seems like paradise - The tales of this place gives the animals hope that one day their labor and suffering will end - Napoleon allows Moses to stay and have an allowance of a gill of beer a day, because Moses has taught the animals to work and not to complain - The pigs fully understand that Moses is a fake, but the seem to recognize how useful he can be to them

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- Moses represents the Russian orthodox Church - The church was originally kickid out of Russian just after the revolution, similarly to how Moses flew after the Joneses as they fled the farm - The goal of the Stalinists was to replace religion with secular rationalism - Karl Marx thought of religon as a drug that kept workers calm - It is this initial prejudice that the most faithful of the Animalists carry over in //Animal Farm// - The stories Moses told about "Sugarcandy Mountain" representing heaven, helped to keep animal docile and focused on their work - The church was reinstated in Russia after stalin need to drum up patriotic support and realized just how useful the church could be to him - Similarly to that, Napoleon allowed Moses to stay on the farm after he returned years after the revolution, because Napoleon understood what use he could be - Now that Napoleon and his dogs have become the oppressors, they once again see a need for Moses to tell the animals about "Sugarcandy Mountain"

- "declared contemptuously that his stories abour Sugarcandy mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day"(81)
- “counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven”(12) - "the animals hated Moses because he told tales and did no work, but some of them believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place"(13)

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- Moses the Raven - Russian Orthodox Church - Karl Marx - Communist Russia - Russian Revolution

__ 1.5: References: __
Gonganza University. (2010). //Animal Farm - Comparison of characters to the Russian Revolution.// Retrieved December 7, 2010, from []

Shmoop. (2010). //Moses(a raven) in Animal Farm.// Retrieved December 9, 2010, from __ [] __