Animalism In George Orwell's Animal Farm

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is, first and foremost, a political satire warning against the pursuit of utopian desires through unjust and oppressive means. Operating under the pretense of an animal fable, Orwell disparages the use of political power to poach personal freedom. He effectively alerts his readers to the dangerous price that can accompany the so-called “pursuit of progress”. And he illuminates how governments acting under the guise of increasing independence often do just the opposite: increase oppression and sacrifice sovereignty. While the cautionary theme Orwell provides proves widely applicable, in reality his novel focuses on one tale of totalitarian abuse: Soviet Russia. The parallels between the society Orwell presents in his Animal Farm and the Soviet Union – from the Russian revolution to Stalin’s supremacy – are seemingly endless. Manor Farm represents Tsarist Russia, Animalism compares to Stalinism, and Animal Farm, with the pig Napoleon at its helm, clearly symbolizes Communist Russia and Joseph Stalin. But Orwell does more than simply align fiction with fact. He fundamentally attacks Soviet Russia at its core. And in so doing he reveals how the Communist Party simply replaced a bad system with a worse one, overthrowing an imperial autocracy for a totalitarian dictatorship. This essay will demonstrate that Orwell’s Animal Farm is

Over the next three months, the idea of a rebellion begins to settle down in the animals’ heads. Three pigs, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer spread these ideas, creating a system of thought, which they name Animalism. Moses the raven turns out to be a problem to the pigs, since he’s Mr. Jones favorite, and he tries to convince the other animals to stay the way they are. As The Manor Farm has been in decay, and Mr. Jones has become irresponsible, the animals rise up against him one day he forgets to feed them, and they kick him, his wife, and his workers out of the farm. All remaining traces of Mr. Jones’ reign of terror are disposed of, they rename the farm Animal Farm, and establish seven rules by which every animal in the farm must live henceforth: whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy, whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend, animals shall wear no clothes, they shall not sleep in a bed, they shall not drink alcohol, they shall not kill other animals, and finally, ALL animals are equal. Afterwards, the animals prepare to go to the hayfield to harvest it, not before milking the cows. All of the animals, but Napoleon go to the hayfield, and when they come back, they notice the milk has

Elie Wiesel in Night and Snowball from Animal Farm are very similar characters because they were victimized by tyrants and used as scapegoats, but they are also unique and individual characters because Elie knew he was being taken advantage of and Snowball did not. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell, and it is about a farm of animals that take over the farm. Napoleon, a large pig, slowly takes away food and supplies from the other animals until he starts walking on two feet and becomes a “human.” Because of him Snowball is expelled from the farm and acts as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong on the farm. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel, and in it Elie tells the story of he was taken from his home and put into a concentration camp under the control of Adolf Hitler.

After Old Major dies shortly after his speech, three pigs, Squealer, Snowball, and Napoleon, decide to take control and form the ideas of the speech into a philosophy—Animalism—with seven principals inscribed on a wall to help maintain harmony amongst the animals. However, problems arise as the pigs begin to compete on taking control of the farm. Napoleon drives Snowball out and begins controlling the farm with unfair and deceiving measures. Animal Farm portrays how a naive working class being controlled by an intelligent government through manipulation can lead to unjust treatment on one side and a lack of compassion and empathy on the other.

In this short novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, otherwise recognized as an allegorical fable, portrays the dangers of communism. Orwell uses the animals to tell a story of real life events, more specifically, the Russian revolution in the early 1900s. He had to do so in this manner because if he were to talk of the government in such a way, he could have been sent to jail or possibly worse. Nevertheless, he writes Animal Farm which explains the way the farmer, or Czar Nicholas II, was overthrown by the animals or the Bolsheviks and as that happened the animals were able to take control of the farm and establish their own form of government known as Animalism or as we know it communism. This type of government, however, brings the animal back to a new type of oppression because as Napoleon, Joseph Stalin, takes charge everything changes and the other animals allow themselves to be brainwashed and controlled. Once Napoleon gained power he made sure he stayed in power by using the dogs and squealer to implement fear and manipulate the truth.

Orwell uses the struggles of animals to overcome a neglectful farmer as an allegorical warning of how a tyrant such as stalin rose out of the russian revolution. Feeding animals was so much of a bother for farmer Jones. Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin by his side, enlightened the Russian peasants of the Marxist dream of communism. While pigs Snowball and Napoleon started a revolution after listening to Old Major’s dream of Animalism. With each dictator on the rise, they worked to validate their new government by, waving flags, singing songs, repeating chants, creating holidays, commemorating events, and erecting statues. The animals used the “Battle of the Shed” and “Beasts of england.” Russia used the October Revolution and “Anthem for the

The speech Old Major gave in the very beginning of animal farm that inspired the rebellion was adopted into 7 principles by the pigs and then later shortened into a saying so all the animals could remember, these principles were called the seven commandments Animalism. The first commandment stated that “whatever goes upon 2 legs is an enemy” as in Old Major's speech he says that “There Comrades is the answer to all of our problems. It is summed up in a single word-Man.”(pg.7) The main goal of Animalism is to abolish the human race and have animal's own their own world, and in order to make it clear that this is the way of thinking they established the rule saying that all man, even if they seem like they are being friendly they are on the opposing side of Animal farm and all that it stands for. However once Napoleon takes charge of Animal farm he begins to change and break certain commandments to his advantage. While Napoleon does not change the commandment “whatever goes upon 2 legs is an enemy” until the very end of the book he does break it by hiring Mr. Whymper to assist him and creating connections and trading with the outside word.

At the start of the book, the animals are slave workers for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Jones. The rebellion occurs with dreams of equality and prosperity among all of the animals on the farm. After Jones is chased off the farm, disagreements between the animals become more apparent. The charisma and intelligence of the pigs allows them to rework the system to benefit them in a reworked society. Napoleon quickly realises that he will need security to look out for him and enforce the rules. This creates a new class for the dogs. The dogs make sure Napoleon is safe and walk around with

For the members of Animal Farm, they desire a “future time” full of long life, fruitful freedom, and rich happiness. Although they bask in that for a short while, it all changes when “Leader, Comrade Napoleon” (Orwell 93) commences to dominate. In the beginning, all the animals of Manor Farm work arduously and consume little nourishment as they are owned by Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, the respected boar, presents a speech in which the main point is “All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.” (Orwell 10) Later, the animals rebel and kick Mr. Jones and his men off Manor Farm and declare the area as Animal Farm. Two pigs named Snowball and Napoleon both try to lead their companions, but their methods differ and eventually vivacious Snowball

[Last Name]1Quinn HerringEnglish II Part 25/15/2018Animal FarmThe novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is a story about various farm animals that are overworked and abused by their neglectful owner. Over time these animals become aware of how poorly they are being treated and mutually decide to change their environment by rising against this owner after he starved them into madness. After overthrowing the owner, the farm’s animals form their own government with rules and regulations that resemble communism. In thisstory there is a lot of symbolism used to explain the result of communism that is not properly followed ideas of Karl Marx. The oldest pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, took charge from the start. Although they claimed to use equality to make guidelines for their government, their claims were to manipulate the other farm animals into doing what they were told to by any of the

Throughout history, there were not many laws people abided by. Karl Marx decided to come up with a theory called Marxism. Karl wanted to come up with a theory that explained the value of all commodities. Karl wanted to make a system that allowed farmers and workers to sell products for capitalists for a wage. This is comparable to the commandments that the pigs created in Animal Farm.

In any flourishing society, the occupants change, grow, and even evolve to become greater and more efficient. Animal farm will provide the necessary structure for this to happen. This structure will be carried out by requiring every animal to go to school and become educated from a young age, work an equal amount of time each day, and follow the rules made by the council. Animals will be provided with a healthy amount of food based off each animal’s intake and any personalized medical or other needs will be attended to.

1A. Mr. Jones is a significant character because his actions and bad deeds provoked the animal rebellion, similarly to how Tsar Nicholas II ignorance led his abdication, ending the Romanov rule and replacing it with the new Bolshevik government (Krieger 185). Moreover, in the story, the animals replaced what used to be “Manor Farm” to “Animal Farm”, and Orwell does this to resemble the transformation of Russia’s government. There are other events in the story that parallel the true events that resemble Tsar Nicholas. For example, similarly to how Nicholas II failed to help the Russian people when they were facing hunger – due to warfare, and food shortages – Mr. Jones’ farm animals too were also neglected and underfed, both of which

“Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right”” (Orwell 56). Boxer, a horse, was unsure of how he felt with Napoleon and the rest of the pigs having all of the power, was not informed enough to know or argue that he did not like this new way of governing, so he just settled with what he was told. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is about Manor Farm that is seized by its maltreated animals that set up their own government in the now renamed “Animal Farm”. There are many animals on this farm, including Benjamin, a donkey who is quite old, Clover, a horse who is not very bright, and the two main leaders, pigs named Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon and Snowball

Life for every one of the creatures (aside from the pigs) is cruel. In the end, the pigs start strolling on their rear legs and go up against numerous different characteristics of their previous human oppressors. The Seven Commandments are diminished to a solitary law: "All Animals Are Equal/But Some Are More Equal Than Others." The novel closures with Pilkington offering beverages to the pigs in Jones' home. Napoleon changes the name of the homestead back to Manor Farm and fights with Pilkington amid a card amusement in which them two attempt to play the trump card. As different creatures watch the scene from outside the window, they can't tell the pigs from the