How Does Orwell Use Animalism In Animal Farm

George Orwell wrote Animal farm in 1945,and it showed many of his beliefs in a subtle way. It is mostly based on the Russian Revolution, which happened in 1917, however, after seeing the causes and effects of the second world war, Orwell believed that people were not learning from their previous mistakes. The themes he explored in his novel include the idea of equality, and how a dictatorship is started with good intention, however, due to human greed and corruption, end up with one person in power and everyone else in poverty. Animal Farm explains the failings of Human nature and how they are started. The novel was written to present these views, and to help people learn from previous mistakes.

People believe that they make every decision themselves using their own thoughts and ideas, but this is not entirely true. Whether it is an ad on TV for a burger or a political speech talking about the future of the country, the goal of these is to persuade people one way or the other. They do this because humans are easily manipulated by ads, propaganda, and false facts. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegory based on communist Soviet Union before and during Joseph Stalin’s time as leader. Orwell showed, using pigs and other animals, how easy it is to manipulate someone into believing something. The pigs manipulated the other animals on the farm by effectively using rhetoric like logos, ethos, and pathos in their speeches.

George Orwell’s use of satire in Animal Farm, a depiction of the Russian Revolution, correlates with the literary device – allegory. When comparisons are made between the book’s characters and its relation to several theories, common themes are unmistakably present. The author’s use personification through direct characterisation of animals in the story highlights how the greed for absolute power corrupts.

Orwell uses pathos in Old Major's speech at the beginning of the story (Orwell 28) “No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: this is the plain truth.” I think that this quote shows pathos in a part of Old Major’s speech; these words invoke a sense of empathy and pity for the animals who are trapped at the farm and forced to slave away every day.

These animals are meant to display the perfect utopia, however fail in doing so, and the credibility of this can go to Napoleon and Snowball. These are the two pigs who go against each other in order to become the ruler of Animal Farm. Napoleon overpowers Snowball and soon, Animal Farm is under his control. Throughout the course of “Animal Farm,” Orwell uses irony, to mock the communist ruling of the animals in Animal Farm as they overthrow the humans because of their vices, and ironically end up adopting the vices of the human ruling as their own.

“They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments” (Orwell 24). This passage from the book suggests that the pigs are completely in charge of Animal Farm, and they use their intelligence to create the Seven Commandments, and rule the farm This moment is the beginning of the pigs’ reign over Animal Farm. Although it may look like Orwell shows the pigs using their intelligence for the well-being and prosperity of Animal Farm, he is actually using techniques like simile, metaphor, and imagery, to portray that they are using their intelligence incorrectly.

George Orwell was the author of Animal Farm, Orwell was able to write a satire on the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm started off with the animals living an anguished life under the ownership of Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones treated the animals with no respect, he took everything the animals had produced, and when Mr. Jones sees that the animal were incapable to work he would slaughter them. The animals on the farm revolted against Mr. Jones and kick him out of the farm. After the revolution the animals went a couple seasons under Snowball and Napoleon leadership, but Napoleon viciously chasing out Snowball.

What kind of government does what ever it can to gain all the power it can? How far will a government go to achieve full submission? One such government that took the controle of it citizens to far was the Russian Government during the russian revolution. George Orwell used allegories in the book Animal Farm to critisize the totalitarian government that over took Russia. Orwell clearly explains how the Russian totalitarianistic Government brain washed its citizens into working hard for minimal pay, kept the working class from rebelling, and shaped the beliefs of the people.

Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegorical novel of the Russian Revolution and the rise and manipulation of communism under Joseph Stalin. Animals of the Manor Farm overthrow their malicious previous leader, only to find themselves manipulated, intimidated, slaughtered and

** How is this story allegorical? If an allegory is “a figurative representation conveying a meaning other than and in addition to the literal,” then what is the additional or alternative meaning contained in Orwell’s story of animal rebellion?

truthful and murder respectable”. In 1983, Penguin Groups published a hallowing allegory about the deception of political advocacy and the dangers of totalitarianism. This story-“Animal Farm”-written by George Orwell, illustrates the tragedy and corruption that consumed Russia through the Soviet Union’s rise and reign. Though short and humble, this political satire compels the reader to acknowledge governmental extortion of power and the influence of language. On Animal Farm, the pigs use the communication of fear, desires, and deceit to promote their agendas and bring about total submission from their fellow animals.

Animal Farm has shown us what happens when a country (farm in this case) moves towards a more socialistic government. The revolution was meant to bring equality to all the animals on the farm. That was the case at first through the efforts of Snowball. As time went on though Napoleon took over and gave the ruling class (pigs) more rights than the working class (rest of the animals). This can be seen by looking at the past 10 years of the United States History. In the past 10 years we’ve have gone through/ started 3 different political associations. Many changes have taken place other this time. We have gone through many political, inequality, and racial issues in that time, which relates to Animal Farm.

George Orwell and his wife adopt a baby boy. They name him Richard Horatio Blair. The thing that stuck out to me the most was since Orwell can’t have kids because of infertility he gives this same problem to Winston and Julia in 1984 .How they are unable to have kids, even though they are madly in love. George Orwell is best known for his novels 1984 and Animal Farm.

In the Russian Revolution, at the beginning, the thought of the rebellion at Animal farm is not awful by any means. Animals pull together keeping in mind the goal to dispose of the so-called vicious owner and set up equality amongst every one of them. On the other hand, as some of them begin to summon and control others, leaders come to power and the hopeful purpose changes into debasement of the power. The animal characters split up into two groups– the class of oppressors and the class of the individuals who are abused. Orwell's aim is to point on the fact that equality has never been really experienced either at the Animal farm, or in Stalin's Russia. Animals symbolize true historical characters and events.

In his novel, Orwell creates an allegory by comparing the events in both revolutions and the actions of both leaders. The events and characters in this novel matchup real well with the real life events that happened back in 1917. Orwell uses an animal fable to compare the two. Orwell is spot on when comparing the similarities between the characters and real life people. Orwell is able to show his subject in easy similar terms by treating the making of communism as a story that is taking place on a single farm with talking animals.