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Examples Of Dystopia In Animal Farm By George Orwell

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Utopian worlds begin as a paradise, but eventually spiral out of control. This is easily shown in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. Animal Farm is a novel about a farmer whose animals overthrow him because of his mistreatment towards them. The leader of the animals is Napoleon, who creates a communist society. The animals are brainwashed to believe everything he says is true, and are forced to do work greater than their ability. The dystopian society in Animal Farm was first meant to be the utopia of the animals, but Napoleon soon takes advantage of his power and creates a hell on earth for the other animals. Napoleon’s manipulation of the animals easily demonstrates how societies with less opinions work best. Societies with less opinions are usually dystopias, and the leader scares the citizens …show more content…

This can be shown soon after Napoleon killed many animals of the farm when the book says ,”These scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old Major first stirred them to rebellion. If she (Clover) herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of Major's speech,” (95). This quote explains the torture Napoleon conflicted on the other animals, and how Clover began to realize that all she lived in was a hell on earth, and soon realizes that Napoleon should be her protector, not her torture. Another quote is also after the mass slaughter when Muriel reads the commandment,”Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.’ Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory. But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly

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