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Leaders And Followers In Animal Farm Essay

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----- {{TITLE}} ----- In the book Animal Farm, the characteristics of all the animals on the farm, definitely contribute to loss of freedom and equality. The leaders and followers each have different characteristics that make up the theme. The leaders can be harsh, controlling, and deceitful, whereas the followers can be innocent, naïve, and reserved which creates a theme that leads to all of the animals not being equal with one another or not having as much freedom as the next.
The leaders contribute to loss of freedom and equality by being controlling towards the animals and making the farm a hypocritical everyday life for them. On page 34 in Animal Farm it says, “Four legs good, two legs bad . . . contains the essential principle of Animalism.” This is stating that any animal/human on two legs is bad (not including the birds). Yet, on page 133/134, it says, “No creature among them went upon two legs . . . It was a pig walking on its hind legs. Yes, it was Squealer . . . And a moment later, out from the door of the farm house came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs.” Yet, that is hypocritical. Then the commandments were suddenly changed …show more content…

Page 67 says, “You have heard then, comrades that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? . . . Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?” On several occasions in Animal Farm, it was said that jones would come back (although he would not) if something is not done the way the pigs want it. Another example of this page 68 where it says, “. . . It was announced that from now one the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either. The other animals obviously knew that this is unfair and nowhere near equal to the amount of freedom that they

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