This is an analysis based on Moses the raven from animal farm George Orwell. In this book he represents the role that religion played in the Russian revolution. The tame raven who spreads stories of Sugar candy Mountain, the paradise to which animals supposedly go when they die. Moses plays only a small role in Animal Farm, but Orwell uses him to explore how communism exploits religion as something with which to pacify the oppressed.
When the pigs first begin talking up their ideas about Animalism, they have to "counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven". Moses is the Joneses' favourite pet, a clever talker who tells the animals about a mysterious country called "Sugar candy Mountain." One day, he says, their labour and suffering will come to an end and they'll all live happily ever after on Sugar candy Mountain. During the Rebellion, Moses flies off after Mrs. Jones and disappears for years. But he returns after the Battle of the Windmill and starts spreading the myth of Sugar candy Mountain again. What's weird is that the pigs still insist that his stories are lies, but they "allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day".
Orwell’s lexical use of the word “tame” describes Moses as solitary and secluded; but also as gentle and not afraid of people. He shows these characteristic as he was Mr Jones special pet. But when he becomes the pig’s special tactic he continues to spread his lies, his propaganda and his false sense of hope for the animals. In most cases a raven is portrayed as negativity this could be deduced by the fact that they are normally found in graveyards and dark places.
Stories about an amazing place you go after you die, exemption from work, and contempt from the leaders—sound familiar? Moses is a symbol for the Russian Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Church broke from the Catholic Church in 1054; the Russian Church became independent from the main Orthodox Church in 1448. For centuries, the Russian Orthodox Church was buddy-buddy with the Russian monarchy (the tsars). When the Bolsheviks took over in October 1917, they declared that church and state would be separate for the first time in Russian history. In soviet Russia religion was used to manipulate people. Stalin wasn't satisfied with just kicking the Church out of power. Under his reign, the Soviets actively persecuted religion and religious authorities. Priests were executed; churches were defiled. However you feel about religion, it was pretty nasty. Stalin declared that religion was obsolete; he wanted to replace religion with science and reason. His justification came straight from communism's founder Karl Marx. Karl Marx famously referred to religion as "the opiate of the masses." He thought of religion as a drug that kept workers calm so that capitalists could take advantage of them Moses's "lies" that allow the farm animals to be exploited.
In conclusion Moses is tame but negative in some ways which shows the more evil side of religion and every character has their own role in this.