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In the first chapter of Animal Farm by George Orwell, Old Major explains to the other animals how they are badly mistreated by Farmer Jones. They end up rebelling only to be further mistreated and abused after they choose to believe in the corrupt leader Napoleon. The way the farm was run when Snowball was in power represents the way Old Major described Animal Farm, while the way Napoleon runs the farm is how Old Major described humans. From this, one learns that it’s important to pay attention and not allow yourself to be manipulated; speak up and don’t let your rights be taken away or they will be taken away forever. By comparing Napoleon's ruling strategies against the times of Jones and the outside world, it will become easy to see that …show more content…

Pilkington and Freidricks were the villains of the book, and because they were humans, they didn’t believe that animals should be treated with any respect. Dogs were used as Napoleon's security, the animals were scared of the dogs but their misguided judgment caused them to consider them as comrades. Napoleon used the dogs to banish Snowball and he lied to the other animals about Snowball to paint himself as the ideal leader for Animal Farm. Violence and the threat of violence kept the other animals in check. Some of the animals were conceived to confess to crimes they didn't do and say they were prompted to do it by Snowball. They probably did this in the hope of reaching “heaven”. Napoleon changed the 7 unbreakable and absolute rules of the farm and the animals were so stupid and trusting of him that when they were told the rules had always been like that they simply believed them. The reason the animals were stupid is because Napoleon shut down the schooling programs and the Sunday meetings so the animals were too dumb to cause him a problem and had no way to get smarter. Unlike Napoleon, Snowball wanted a farm where the animals were

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