Revolutions, a change for the better? When a country is in need of change, the republic starts a revolution. A revolution is when a better and stronger government overthrows the current government. The animals in the book, Animal Farm, succeed in starting a revolution to make their lives easier yet their results turn out to make it just as hard as it was before the revolution. The revolution in Animal Farm closely follows Brinton's paradigm, …showed first 75 words of 874 total…

…showed last 75 words of 874 total…bad one. The pigs try to make a change for the better at the beginning, but slowly fade to corruption. The revolution in this novel was based on the standard events for a revolution. The same events are in the English Civil War and the French Revolution. The social classes, Storming of the Bastille, Reign of Terror, and Napoleons rule are seen in Animal Farm. Is it possible that revolutions have no point at all?