Tyranny In Animal Farm

The animals lack of education render them powerless to the manipulation of the pigs. They are unable to form their own opinions, and speak up against them. When the pigs announce Snowball’s betrayal during the Battle of Cowshed, Boxer attempts to defend Snowball, but is unable to because he could not speak up against them. “I do not believe that, he said Snowball rough bravely at the Battle of Cowshed. I saw him myself. Did we not give him ‘Animal Hero, First Class,’immediately afterwards?”(Orwell 80). Boxer realizes that Napoleon and Squealer are not telling the truth about Snowball fighting in the battle of Cowshed. Boxer knows Snowball fought because he was bleeding. With this realization, Boxer begins to ponder what else Napoleon and Squealer

Shortly after the Revolution, Snowball comes up with the plan to construct a windmill to make the lives of the inhabitants of Animal Farm easier. Napoleon hides in the shadows per se until the puppies that he has taken and trained are old enough to act as a police force. Once they are old enough, Napoleon has the dogs drive Snowball off the farm. He then takes credit for the idea of the windmill and proceeds to claim that he, not Snowball, won the award at the Battle of Cowshed. Napoleon then informs the animals that Snowball was an enemy and was a threat to Animal Farm. The animals are swayed by his propaganda and are fearful of his police dogs; this is what keeps him in power.

The sub theme of power corrupting people is very eminent in animal farm. The leaders on the farm - the pigs, were the brains of the farm. The animals let the pigs lead the farm, thereby placing them into a position of power. This power corrupted them as they became more and more greedy and their ideology became more and more corrupted. Also, the pig’s transgressions of the rules of animalism worsen as they grow in power.

Napoleon, who is one of the more intelligent pigs on the farm is force to take authority and eliminate opposition. Napoleon takes “nine sturdy puppies” (35) and becomes “responsible for their education” (35) while raising them up. The puppies soon become “fierce-looking wolves” (53) which he uses them to intimidate and petrify all the animals. Napoleon’s guard dogs “dash straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws” (53). Snowball “running faster than ever”

For the animals to truly succeed in starting the new era of Animal Farm, the pigs, especially Snowball, need the animals to be informed about new ideas for the farm and most importantly, accept them with few questions. Along with this acceptance to the introduction of Animal Farm’s ideals, the animals find inspiration in Boxer’s actions and words to pave their own individual work ethics. With the introduction of a bitter winter, “the other animals… [find] inspiration in Boxer’s strength and his never-failing cry of ‘I will

When questions aroused about how in the Battle of Cowshed Comrade Napoleon wasn't as brave as they all thought, the only solution was to push the blame to Snowball. The pigs thought that if they explained to the lower animals how Snowball was against them, no one would look to Napoleon for the blame anymore. " That was our mistake, comrade. For we know now----it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found----that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom" (80). If the animals were smarter and had better memories, they could have remembered this battle more vividly then they wouldn't have seen what the pigs were trying to accomplish. They would have seen how Squealer was manipulating their minds into thinking that Comrade Napoleon was the hero, Snowball was the enemy and he himself had been in on the human's plan with Jones. Not only did the pigs say Snowball betrayed Animal Farm, but they also suggested that he created mischief on the farm while the animals slept at night.

Though the accusations are false they found a way to manipulate the other animals into believing it was true. It was easy for the pigs to change the other animals view and opinions on Snowball because of their knowledge. The pigs use lies to turn the other animals against Snowball: “Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball […] everyone began thinking out ways of catching Snowball if he should ever come back” (47-48). Squealer convinces the animals that Snowball is such a threat that they are willing to kill a leader they once looked up to and sought guidance from. They manipulated the minds of the uneducated animals so much that when anything went wrong on the farm their first instinct was to blame Snowball for it.

Restriction of freedom can be beneficial when others are abusing their freedom to cause physical, emotional, or psychological harm to others. For example, people have the freedom to say whatever they choose online but if someone uses that ability to bully others, then their freedom should be restricted because of the consequences of what their actions could bring. In the instance of Animal Farm, Napoleon gained freedom after the Rebellion, but later used his freedom to do what he wanted to the

Jones, unquestionably did not want him back, so they, a touch bit reluctantly, accepted Squealer's sly explanation, however distrustful he seemed. Secondly, the pigs are determined to take out any animal that stands in their way, even if it means defying the commandments that they themselves created. As we have seen, this has happened to not only Snowball, but others as well. “When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess” (56). In this quote, Napoleon forces innocent animals to confess partaking in the sinful deeds accompanied by Snowball.

Soon after building the windmill, it falls and Napoleon blames Snowball for its destruction. Some of the animals sympathize with Snowball, saying that there was no way he could have pushed it over. Napoleon becomes angry, purging the farm, killing anyone who he accuses of allying with Snowball. After he did so, animals questioned his tactics only for Napoleon to ask the animals, “Surely comrades, you would not want Jones back? (Orwell, pg. 67 Chap. 6)” By saying this rhetorical question, the animals would not question what it was that Jones had done that was worse than Napoleon, and they would just get back to doing their work. Napoleon used Squealer the pig to help him get out of situations that he brought upon himself. When Napoleon would say something that he was not supposed to, Squealer would justify for

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” John Steinbeck. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Leadership and Corruption correlate in his whole theme of power and become quite evident throughout the story. The ideas from the story connect to real world ideas. The concept of the Animal Farm story was an allegory to the Russian Revolution. In the real world when power becomes corrupt its usually in the event that the person in charge wants things to satisfy their needs for stuff. Also they don’t want to work. In addition to that they simply bask in the ideal of being in charge having all of the attention because people are selfish and their is no doubt about that.

The tyrants in Animal Farm are the pigs. The pigs, Squealer, Snowball (who eventually gets chased off the farm), and Napoleon, claim that they are helping the animals of Animal Farm, previously Manor Farm. When in fact the tyrants are essentially making it

Throughout the book of Animal Farm the theme of leadership and corruption is continuous. The animal’s who have the biggest part in both of these major themes are the pigs. Napoleon, for example, takes over as the leader in the beginning of the book and later his leadership methods turn corruptive.

To begin with, The real power holder was o’l Major, the animal that everybody praised, obeyed, and were grateful for! After, his pass is when the pigs came in power! They were teaching and organizing all the others. “The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals” -page 15. The two pigs Snowball and Napoleon were naturally Mr.Jones breeding animals who were being put up for

The pigs consider themselves the superior ones of the farm; this is because of their knowledge. The pigs systematically abuse logic and language to control those below them. For example, the final reduction of the seven commandments, this is in Chapter five, is senseless content but is read in reasonable language by the rest of the animals. This quote shows that there are many different degrees of “equal” just as there is of “light”, for example (more light, less light). Once you have misread, little details seem insignificant.