George Orwell's Animal Farm

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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

9. Snowball is the first leader who is overthrown by Napoleon, but overall the pigs had leadership due to their ability to read and write.

Jones. When giving a speech to the animals Old Major says, “The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth”(Orwell 7). This illustrates how unhappy the animals are with the way that they are being treated. They are fed the bare minimum, and are enslaved to work for Mr. Jones against their will. Later when Old Major is speaking to the animals he says, “That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!”(Orwell 9). This demonstrates how the animals are considering rebellion. They are planning on rebelling against Mr. Jones to gain back their freedom. The animals were fighting Mr. Jones and the neighboring farmers when, “all the sheep... rushed forward and prodded and butted the men from every side”(Orwell 41). The animals were trying to keep the farmers from taking back the farm. In doing so, they were sacrificing their safety in order to keep the freedom they fought for earlier in the book. To conclude, the animals had to fight in order to gain their freedom from Mr. Jones.

From the very beginning of this book, the animals plan to take over the farm. They are tired of being treated the way that they are being treated. They work hard everyday and do whatever they are asked but don’t get treated the way that they should be treated. “No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth” (pg. 5). By the second chapter, the animals took out their rebellion when Mr. Jones and his men came out with whips in their hands and being extremely cruel. Then and there, they decided it was time. However, some animals did not want to take out the rebellion because some thought that without Mr. Jones, they would not survive. The majority however, were tired of their mistreatment. The symbolism that connects with these actions of the animals is the Russian Revolution. The Russian Revolution was also a rebellion. In 1917, there was two revolutions that took over Russia. The people of Russia were undergoing harsh mistreatment. Their cities were overcrowding and they went through food shortages because of the Crimean War. There were protests by the Russian workers and they ended up being massacred. By doing this, it sparked the second revolution. These revolutions ended centuries of Imperial Rule and eventually lead to the beginning of the Soviet Union.

The book opens with Old Major, a prize-winning pig, holding a meeting with all of the animals. He talks about a dream he had, where all of the animals lived and worked together without any humans to bother them. Old Major wants them to all work toward achieving his dream, and convinces them that humans are the enemy. He teaches them a song called “Beasts of England”, which describes everything from his dream. Old Major passes away three days later. After his death, three pigs, Snowball, Squealer, and Napoleon create Animalism to help make Old Major’s dream a reality. Animalism was a philosophy that was inspired by what Old Major taught the animals, and it had seven commandments, “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.” Late one night, the

His speech effectively uses ethos, pathos, imagery, and a call to action to convince the Manor farm animals to spark a revolution against humans. In his speech, Old Major begins by bringing a sense of unity to his fellow animals. Old Major’s first word for his speech is “comrades” (6), which he generously uses throughout his speech. His repetition of the word and his encouraging tone, connect the animals to himself as he brings familiarity, he uses folksy appeal persuasively.

The theme of corruption through power is strong in this novel. It was critical to Orwell, as it delivered his purpose well and communicated to the audience the truth about the communist revolution. A significant character who was used to support this concept was the novel's main antagonist, Napoleon, who is perceived as a selfish, devious pig and stands as the oppressive ruler of Animal Farm. Napoleon is an effective representation of the consequences of absolute power. He is also used as an allegory for the infamous leader of the communist revolution,

One night, all the animals of Mr. Jones’ farm, gather together in the barn to listen to Old Major, the pig, tell them about a dream he had, in which no animal had to live under the reign of human owners which would happen after a large rebellion against the people that treated them as slaves. After his death, which occurred only three nights after that meeting, the rest of the animals spent months working on plans to make the rebellion that Old Major had spoken of, into a reality. In the beginning the pigs, particularly Snowball and Napoleon, which had naturally become the leaders, faced difficulties convincing the other animals that this was the right thing to do.

George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is a novella about the rebellion of farm animals against their owner. It was a satirical, dystopian book, commenting on Soviet Russia at the time (Wikipedia). The book is a great journey into the mind of farm animals that have had enough of being abused. A classic story such as this can only be described as a fairy tale, but for adults.

George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm, is regarding a large farm run by a man named Mr. Jones who tends to be drunk and constantly forgets about his animals well being. This leads to the animals revolting and running Mr. Jones off the Manor Farm, thus renaming it Animal Farm. Napoleon, a pig, soon takes charge and creates a society that not all the animals can agree on. After being in power for some time, Napoleon begins to have a harsh course of action and the animals are taken back by this. At the end of the book, Napoleon is seen sitting around the kitchen table arguing with other humans, and the it became apparent that the two were undistinguishable. Mollie, Benjamin, and Boxer are three characters who come to have entirely different views on how Animalism, the idea of rebelling against humans to acquire a utopian animal society, which was put in place by Napoleon.

In the book, all of the main characters are animals except for the few people that help or oppose the animals. The first important main character is Napoleon. Napoleon was a smart pig who took control of the farm after the Rebellion. He was based off of the controversial Russian Joseph Stalin. He enforced his laws using fear, which was his hunting dogs, to control the uneducated animals. Later in the story, he would keep changing the rules they made when the Rebellion had been established, and started acting like the humans. The other main character in the story is Snowball. He is another pig who challenges Napoleon for power after the Rebellion. Snowball is the most fit to be leader, as he protects the farm, is intelligent and is patriotic. But Napoleon turns everyone against him and he is forced to leave. The last main character in the story is Boxer. He is the other cart-horse in the story and uses his great strength to the max to help

The novel “Animal Farm” written by George Orwell, in the chapters of 1 to 4 there have been multiple of emotions, acknowledgment and an atmosphere conveyed to the readers. To start off, all the animals have a meeting upon the request of Old Major where he strongly raises the dispute and enmity towards Man. Old Major addresses the pain inflicted upon them alerting that soon a Rebellion might come. He teaches them all the song “Beast of England” which all animals sing in harmonium tune. After, the death of Old Major, the pigs educated the rest animals on Animalism.

Animal farm was written by George Orwell based in his home country England, published in the year 1944. Almost all of Orwell’s works focused on political fictions such as 1984 being based on totalitarianism, Animal Farm focuses on Karl Marx’s ideologies of ‘Socialism’ and Lenin’s ‘Communism’. Animal farm is sort of a figuration of communism and the communist party, the story is based on farm animals who are being abused and mistreated by mankind, then the animals decide to overthrow the human race by starting a rebellion which ends up being a success; the animals conquer their quest and abolish all humans from ‘Manor Farm’ which later became known as ‘Animal Farm’ due to the animals take over. The story begins with Old major, the oldest pig

(Orwell 72). Snowball courageously fought in the rebellion, but Napoleon and Squealer are able to bend the truth to reveal Snowball as a traitor or enemy. Lastly, Napoleon also uses his words to transform himself into an idol. He is said to be the hero in the Battle of Cowshed by risking his life to protect the animals (Orwell 56). By manipulating the animals, they believe that he is their true leader and that he is trustworthy.