Animal Farm: Analysis “All Men Are Enemies. All Animals Are Comrades.”

Animal Farm is a novel which teaches the failure of rebellion, and it twists it into a satirical tale of animals living in an unjust farm. Orwell shows three main points to support his thoughts and beliefs. He shows the formation of a revolution, the build-up and foreground, and finally the outcome of a revolution. This essay will give a synopsis of the plot of Animal Farm.

George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm is a great example of allegory and political satire. The novel was written to criticize totalitarian regimes and particularly Stalin's corrupt rule in Russia. In the first chapter Orwell gives his reasons for writing the story and what he hopes it will accomplish. It also gives reference to the farm and how it relates to the conflicts of the Russian revolution. The characters, settings, and the plot were written to describe the social upheaval during that period of time and also to prove that the good nature of true communism can be turned into something atrocious by an idea as simple as greed. This essay will cover the comparisons between Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution. It will also explain why

Animal Farm is a skillfully written allegory for the rise and degredation of the Soviet Union. Not only that, but it goes further to describe the failings of Communism as an encompassing system of government and economics. The animals portrayed in the book even state the core tenent of their supposed free state to essentially be that of Communism as written by Karl Marx, "All shall work according to what he can produce". From here, it illustrates the political fued between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky, and Trotsky's eventual exile by Stalin in the form of two pigs named Napoleon and Snowball. Over all, the entire book is an allegory for the Soviet Union and how communism as a system is doomed to fail.

The idea of power, and how it is abused through communism, can be clearly shown in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”. Orwell cleverly uses the allegory of describing what the Russian revolution would be like when portrayed through actual farm animals who have the ability to communicate with humans, and each-other. The two most important topics that heavily influence the novel are: dreams, hopes, and plans for the greater good, and the idea of corruption through leadership.

Stalin staged the confessions by using fear tactics to coerce the accused. As Orwell suggests in the text, Napoleon does almost an identical demonstration. Likewise, the nine dogs in Animal Farm symbolise the Soviet Secret police and represent the violent militant force in Russia. Napoleon uses the dogs to instil fear into the animals so that he can have total domination over the rest of the animal’s lives. This is also to prevent the animals protesting or starting an uprising.

Albeit the novella does use personification throughout, at first glance one might not realize the significant backstory the piece carries. However, as the book plot progresses it is evident that we can attribute and compare the moral flaws of animals and social deterioration to our own personal flaws as well as our own societies and governments. “Animal Farm.” shows the harsh realities that ensue when a ruling body misinterprets political beliefs and rules through opression and radicalism. Any sort of political belief that is taken to completely radical or regressive state is very likely to turn violent and harmful to the people. (Aguilar 2.)

However, not all the animals contribute to the harvest in the same way as "the pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others" (Orwell 35). The pigs believed that because they were more intelligent, they would better contribute by organizing. They fail to realize that this is a vice of man that they should avoid. Did not the men believe they were contributing to the farm with their vast knowledge on managing the farm? It is quite the double-edged sword. These animals need guidance in order to produce their goods and tend to the crops but if the pigs aren't contributing by putting in physical labor then they are using the animals for their labor just as Mr. Jones did. It is almost as if intellect corrupts those who exercise it and ignorance allows those who succumb to it to be taken advantage of. Mollie, for example, was considered to be "foolish" (Orwell 17). Her inability to see the bigger picture past material possessions reminds me of a quote that goes as follows: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" (NPR). The purpose of Animal Farm was to liberate the animals from the shackles of slavery and the mare cared more about lumps of sugar and hair ribbons. The animals working in the field were no better. Their inability to question authority allowed them to be taken advantage of. Sadly, the long-term results of the revolution on

Animal farm is a renowned, allegorical novella written by George Orwell in 1945, which can be interpreted to have a hidden political meaning behind it referring to the Russian Revolution. Throughout this novella, the author purposely positions the audience to make judgements based on sensible, moral perception to show that Orwell effectively revealed how the pigs exploited a vast majority of propaganda techniques to deceptively manipulate the values, attitudes and beliefs of the other animals, with full intention of complete social control. This was exposed to the reader when the three main values of ‘Animalism’, as outlined in Old Major's speech, which consists of freedom, unity and equality, are abused for the pigs own advantage. This task

The language throughout Animal Farm, mostly figurative, was employed to succinctly detail the conditions and ethics within the society. In the beginning of chapter 6, George Orwell compares the animals’ labor with a simile that contradicts the animal’s own optimistic outlook on their work. The animals working “like slaves” asserts that their toil was out of obligation or force; however, they were “well aware that everything they did was for the benefit of themselves” (Orwell 42). The farm animals’ grueling conditions expressed further on, reemphasized their slave-like labor, evoking dread and apprehension from the reader, and the input of the animals’ own purpose for

Orwell’s novella was written during World War II and was published in 1945 at a time of worldwide political unrest. It is a reflective text that acts as a critique of the Russian Revolution and hence is a warning against his concerns with the revolutionary abstraction of ideals. Offering an authentic perspective of a totalitarianism system controlling a society through manipulation, propaganda, surveillance and censorship; Animal Farm is specific in its understanding of humanity. The first signs of the looming revolution and the inevitable use of power on the farm appears through Old Major, symbolic of Communism's founding father Karl Marx, ‘the prize winning boar .’ He is a personality whom the animals have a lot of respect for and his speech, embedded with political rhetoric, is a parable for Marx’s Communist Manifesto - the basis of the Soviet Russia.

George Orwell’s novel ‘Animal Farm’ is an allegorical fable of the Russian Revolution. It depicts the Revolution in a way that is inoffensive to people and also very easy to understand. This controversial novel also teaches many valuable lessons, all very true in man’s past and also in the present.

Animal Farm was one of the most famous book by Orwell which tells the story about how animals fight against the farmer and run the farm by themselves, and the animals believe that “all animals are equal (21)”. However, after animals took in charge the farm from human, their most important creed start to change gradually. Napoleon, the leader of animal farm, began to divide animals into intellectual and hard labor. He claims that he is a “brainworker” but he controls the labors with his superior intelligence for his own benefit. What they believed in the beginning that “all animals are equal” is transformed in to “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others (112).” Experienced the social structure in the boarding school, George Orwell criticize the social class system by using literature. During that period, not matter England or Russia, people who were on higher class always try to manipulate the society for their own benefit and exploiting the labor. Even nowadays, there are still a large amount of countries are exploiting the lower-class people and they don’t get enough pay for their

Stealing is done because of greed, another human characteristic. All of the animals on the farm were greedy. This included animals that appeared to be victims. The hens went on strike when they were not allowed to keep as many eggs, this was a greedy, selfish act. Because, although it was not what they wanted to happen, it affected other animals who now were fed even less. The pigs were greedy, they had privileges the other animals did not, and they also took away the enjoyment of living in a socialist society that was being worked towards. The equines wanted sugar cubes, and Napoleon got sugar when he was eating at the dining room table, with cutlery. Cutlery, this was another privilege only he had. The animals did not know how being greedy would affect them in the long term, and most of them were not aware of the greediness and

Also on my poster I drew a communist flag hanging over Napoleon to represent animalism. Even though they did not have a flag like that I think it is good to have one to show who is really in power in a communist state.

The book establishes a working class, that consists of the strong animals such as the horses, (p. 17) which seperated the other animals from the superior pigs. The pigs used the dogs for protection or one could also interpret the ’protection’ as a usage of the propaganda technique, fear. This is first seen when the dispute between the pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, starts (p. 35) The living conditions of the working class worsen throughout the progression of the regime (p. 46), the farm lacks food to feed the animals and the workers work harder and longer