Analysis of Main Character in Animal Farm

In George Orwell’s Novel, Animal Farm, Old Major delivers a speech to the animals on the farm. Major preaches on how the humans are weak, selfish, lazy thieves who steal from the farm animals. Lecturing on banning together and rebelling against the humans, Old Major uses pathos, ethos, asyndetons, and imagery to help sparks an uproar amongst the animals. Major uses these strategies to engage and convince them of who the real enemy is.

One magnificent part of Orwell’s Animal Farm is the fact that many of the characters show a great amount of symbolism. Two perfect examples of this are the pig Old Major, and the maleficent Farmer Jones. When the old pig is close to dying, Old Major tells the animals that after his death, he feels that a rebellion against man will happen in the animal world. He practically lays down his suggestions of how the rebellion should occur: all

Power corrupts sometimes. It corrupts sometimes because in the book man is what corrupts because in chapter one old major said ," Man is the only creature that consumes without producing." in other words it is saying the man (people) take but at the same time they are not thank full for what they take because the animal

Animal farm is a renowned, allegorical novella written by George Orwell in 1945, which can be interpreted to have a hidden political meaning behind it referring to the Russian Revolution. Throughout this novella, the author purposely positions the audience to make judgements based on sensible, moral perception to show that Orwell effectively revealed how the pigs exploited a vast majority of propaganda techniques to deceptively manipulate the values, attitudes and beliefs of the other animals, with full intention of complete social control. This was exposed to the reader when the three main values of ‘Animalism’, as outlined in Old Major's speech, which consists of freedom, unity and equality, are abused for the pigs own advantage. This task

Novelist, George Orwell, in his novel, Animal Farm, a pig name Old Major establishes a speech about animals´ lives in the farm and passes down his wisdom to the other animals. Old Major´s purpose is describe how animals´ lives are miserable. He describes how the animals do nothing but work, and after they cannot do that, they get killed. He adopts a angry emotional tone in order to get the reader to understand and feel the emotions of the animals.

Orwell uses Old Major to represent the authentic Marxist idealism and therefore Old Major becomes a parody of the Russian revolutionist Karl Marx. Old major adopts the Marxist role in the beginning as he controls the animals by pretending that they’re all working together. Bryant Mcgill suggests that ‘The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information’ and this is exactly what Old Major does in is controlling regime, using limiting education as a tool to gain power through knowledge. The way Old Major treats the animals is arguably worse than Jones’ treatment of them because he manipulates them without them realizing that they are being manipulated, this statement easily presents why the Old Major and the pigs treat the animals are worse than Jones. Old Major uses inclusive pronouns like ‘we’ to convince the animals that they are all ‘Comrades’ and he also tells them what to think which allows him the manipulate their ambitions into what he wants them to do. Old Major becomes more like Jones as his speech goes on because he becomes the leader and controller of

Throughout the novel he takes total control over the farm, and he does not imply justified methods. For example, he takes food away for himself and the other pigs, reduces the rations of the other animals tremendously, does human actions such as sleeping in a bed and wearing human clothes, and takes credit for all positive actions benefitting the farm. "'Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days'...'Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes (pgs 93-94)'". Greedy and selfish are two words that described Napoleon's behavior. Taking command over all the others, Napoleon does not accomplish anything on the farm, and experiences luxury while the others experience oppression.

Napoleon uses his intelligence as a way to manipulate the other animals who don’t have the same knowledge like him into believing that they are all equal. He incrementally, changes the way the farm works, so that he gets the better of it, while the rest are working hard and not get the fair share they deserve. Napoleon as well changes the commandments, which as a result shows him as someone who is corrupted by power. By the end of the novella, only one commandment had left, but had an addition that Napoleon added. It reads, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

He only cares about his own accomplishments and no one else’s He only fed himself and made the others hunt and make their own food. When the milk came in, Napoleon was very selfless “Nevermind the milk comrades! cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets” (26). Napoleon does not care if the animals who are actually working get fed or not, he has no care for their health. Napoleon has tricked all of the animals that they will be rewarded with freedom, when in reality they were never free.

George Orwell uses literary elements such as characterization, foreshadowing, flashback, figurative language, mood, or sensory details in the book Animal Farm. The theme of is when you are regarding education, the author wants to say that if you have an education, you could gain power. I think so because of the characters. Some of the characters in the book are Napoleon, Squealer, and Benjamin.

In reading Animal Farm the primary focus was on the animal’s uprising due to their displeasure in how they were being treated by the by the owner Mr. Jones and the hands. They worked all day tilling the land and was under fed and whipped and slaughtered. The animals had resolved themselves to believe this was their destiny until Major and old pig, informed them of the possibilities of rebellion by the animals. Major was able to influence the animals of the possibility of rebellion from their present state, through a story and then taught them a song Beast of England. The words of this song inspired the animals. The thoughts of rebellion were born. Unfortunately, Major died before he could see the rebellion come to fruition.

Roxanne and I have begun reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm. This novel begins with a gathering of farm animals in a barn. An old and respected pig called Old Major gives a political speech to the other animals and explains his view of an ideal society for them. He expresses his belief that mankind is their enemy, and how he thinks that they should no longer be overpowered by their tyrannical and destructive ways. He supposes a rebellion and persuades the group by specifying their keeper’s, Mr. Jones, cruelty and his gluttonous nature of using the animals only how he wants to. Old Major proclaims, “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove man from the scene and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever” (29). Eventually,

NAPOLEON – In the first two chapters, Napoleon was described as not being much of a talker but had a reputation for getting his way. He was also described as being very intelligent and influential. Throughout chapters three to six Napoleon’s character changes from what he was first presumed to be. The author uses both direct and indirect methods to show the alterations of Napoleon’s character. Napoleon is now perceived to be very sly and cunning and he uses tactics to his advantage which he keeps a secret from the other animals. An example of this is when he seized the nine puppies for the purpose of educating them. Instead, he made them into guard dogs to chase away Snowball and to force the other animals in agreement to his decisions. The

Chapter 1: The cast of characters is introduced: Benjamin is a quite old and quiet donkey, Jessie, Bluebell, and Pincher are dogs, Boxer and Clover are the horses, Muriel is a goat,, Moses is a raven, Mollie is a mare, as well as there are plenty of chickens, hens and ducks that are a part of this animal pact.

Napoleon a pig, uses other animals to do his dirty work, so he can have all the fun he wants. The background information on the essay is about how you should never be selfish just because you think you’re smarter than the other animals. Animal Farm is about a story when animals try to govern one another instead of the humans telling them what to do. But by the end of the story the pigs eventually manipulate the other animals for their own benefit. The theme of the story is that absolute power can lead to a man's cruelty.