Animal Farm, By George Orwell

Being deceived is not something noticed on first glance; small, seemingly harmless steps with perfectly reasonable explanations are taken first. Through the oppression and control of the non-pigs in Animal Farm, George Orwell warns that the negative results that come from ignorance are the likeliness of being deceived, unawareness of social change, and people’s inability to objectively judge their situation.

Valor, in all its essence, is comparable to fear. Both can be quickly spurred by outside factors and can lose momentum with the same rapidness. At their core, they are both caused by desperation, but fear cowers while heroism protects. In Anthem by Ayn Rand, protagonist Equality 7-2521, also referred to as Equality, is imprisoned in a collective society that promotes conformity. George Orwell writes about the suffering of animals by their abusive owner in his novel Animal Farm, an allegory to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Society today is comprised of individuals whose perspectives sometimes clash with the majority and the results raise many debates. In three illustrations–Anthem, Animal Farm, and society today—physical and social fear

The working class of a society include people employed for harsh, physical labor. In the novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, Napoleon enslaves the creatures of Animal Farm under his dictatorship. In this allegory, Orwell uses animals to represent various people in former Soviet Russian society. Boxer, the horse, symbolizes the Russian working class, or proletariats. Both embody qualities of strength, dedication, and blind obedience. As the farm animals face oppression from Napoleon, Boxer and the proletariat’s personality traits allow the tyrannical leader to take advantage of them.

An enthusiastic participant in the Spanish civil war in 1936, George Orwell had a great understanding of the political world and made his strong opinions known through his enlightening literary works, many of which are still read in our modern era. Inspired by the 1917 Russian Revolution and the failed society it resulted in, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell is an encapsulating tale that epitomises how a free utopian society so idealistic can never be accomplished. The novella exemplifies how influences of corruption and greed are capable of devolving pure benevolent intentions, resulting in a malevolent and abusive society. Through the allegorical use of animals on a farm instead of a recount of history, Orwell has successfully mirrored the concerns of the Russian Revolution. He has also simultaneously introduced complex ideas relating to socialism and totalitarianism for all young readers. Through this he has developed a deeper understanding on the complexities and shades of grey involved in dealing with these issues. "Animal Farm" is thus undoubtedly a successful representation of “good” young adult literature as stated by prominent academic Lois T. Stover.

Orwell depicted the non-utopia of the future and the perils it involves in one of the post powerful warnings ever issued against the dangers of a totalitarian society.

Could the world in Nineteen Eighty-four (1948) and Animal Farm (1945) ever really exist? Orwell believes it could. In Animal Farm, the pigs gradually twist and distort rhetoric of socialist revolution to justify their behavior and to keep the other animals in the dark. The animals embrace Major’s ideal of socialism, but after Major dies, the pigs began to altering his words. At end of the work, Squealer’s has repeatedly reconfigured the meaning and words of the Seven Commandments in order to decriminalize the pigs’ treacheries. The seven commandments have been brought down to one “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Orwell’s use of this abuse of language remains one of the most compelling and enduring features of Animal Farm, and parallels a major theme of Nineteen Eighty-four, propaganda. “Big Brother is Watching You.” This is used by the Party and in the media also. These words are depicted beneath the picture, on posters that are hung about Oceania. This slogan is meant to give citizens a feeling of protection, and to prevent them from breaking any of the laws of the society. A feeling of safety, the Party uses this to make them think that within this government, nothing can go wrong. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four and Animal Farm language is the greatest tool of oppression. Orwell hopes that readers will leave Nineteen Eighty-four accepting the possibility that this government could existed and has indeed existed enough to

Every ninety-eight seconds, an American is sexually assaulted; however, only six out of a thousand rapists will end up prison. Not only are evil actions being done, they are actions that go unpunished. Along with sexual assault, people choose actions like murder, torture, and even more mild offenses like lying. People may even seek pleasure from these activities. Climate change, political agendas, and intolerance across the globe are all examples of man-made problems that could have been avoided if humans weren’t fundamentally horrible. According to literary, historical and modern research, humans are generally violent and awful.

Animal Farm by George Orwell, an allegorical reflection of the Russian Revolution, was quite the opposite of my average read. Opening up a novel about a dystopian society ruled by animals gave me a whole new perspective about equal rights. It makes one think, “How come us humans are given the upper hand and animals are forced to go by our rules?” Or irrational thoughts, such as “Will animals one day conquer Earth?” We don’t know the answers to these questions as of now, but after reading Animal Farm my mind was full of possibilities. I’ve learned that animals can have emotions, thoughts, and actions very similar to humans in their own unique way, which in this case, is a problem to the residents of Animal Farm.

George Gurdjieff was an influential spiritual teacher in the early twentieth century. He references in the following quote that when one is uneducated he will always remain a slave. “Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.” (Gurdjieff) This ties in with how the animals are treated in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a novella about animals who take over their farm, and form a society. The animals rebel and overtake their master, Mr. Jones, forming their society based on Animalism, or the belief in equality of all animals. However a corrupt pig named Napoleon comes to power, and uses

Tyranny has always been present in human history from Joseph Stalin to Adolf Hitler they have all taken advantage of the public and used them to their own advantage and personal needs. In the story Animal Farm by George Orwell this tyrannical, totalitarian, and corrupt form of government is seen. In the story the tired animals organize a rebellion against their owner and drive him out. They create their own government, with the pigs assuming control. But the corrupt pigs take advantage of this power entrusted to them, and oppress the animal for their own benefit. Even though the pigs abused the power they had, The naive and gullible animals themselves were the ones responsible for the pigs’ quick rise to power and control because the animals were tricked into supporting the pigs evil plans, they were too braindead to organize and execute a rebellion even after they realized the pigs were up to no good, and they were so foolish that they even supported the expulsion of snowball, the only good pig that worked for the good of the other animals.

As Lord Acton once said, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. During the beginning of the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, Old Major, the prize Middle White boar describes the oppression that the animals on Manor Farm have experienced. Old Major goes to foreshadow that a day will come when the animals will overthrow their human masters and build an equitable society. That day does in fact come and the animals cause their previous master, Jones, to flee the farm leading to the farms original name of Manor Farm to be changed to Animal Farm. However, we quickly see that the pigs, by virtue of their leadership of the revolution, quickly become corrupted by the power that they have achieved thus corrupting the primary ideals on animalism.

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, farm animals drive out their farmer and live in an environment where all animals are equal. However, the pigs, the smartest animals on the farm, end up taking over the farm and controlling all the animals. They trick the animals into believing they are doing everything for the benefit of the farm, when in reality they are doing it for themselves. The famous quote mentioned in this novel not only explains a scene in the book; it also shows the Orwell’s true purpose for writing the story: his hatred towards communism and Stalin’s rule. An author shows his or her purpose through the text’s hidden meanings, the structure of the text, the sequence of events, and the diction of the text.

Sometimes taking control can corrupt people and make them do selfish acts or make decisions the people don’t want. It might even bring about an argument or revolt from someone or a crowd. Whatever the case, it is never good to be possessive or something or someone when they want to make their own choices and decisions because they have the right to. An example of a story that shows how power can corrupt people is Animal Farm by George Orwell. He uses the character from the story to symbolize the historical figures from the Russian Revolution. This Revolution had two separate events called the February and October Revolution. In the February revolution, Tsar Nicholas II was removed from power after being selfish and greedy leader to his citizens. The October revolution, however was a much more different event and was led by the Bolsheviks realize who began building support within petrograd and other Urban centers. After, the Bolsheviks realize they couldn’t maintain too much power and abandoned the democratic process, they declared themselves representatives of a dictatorship of the proletariat. Based on the use of symbolism and characterization in Animal Farm, Orwell argues that in society, people should stand up for their own rights and protect themselves from leaders who think have more power or control than them.

Throughout human history, tyranny and oppression have fueled the revolutionary reconstitution of society. The French revolutionary motto, “liberty, equality, fraternity” can be applied in part to every rebellion in history. With these principles at heart, it only seems logical that human society should become utopian. Despite the principles, the French revolution paved the way for the autocratic rule of Napoleon. History repeats itself; George Orwell’s Animal Farm follows the rise of Animalism which serves as an allegorical reflection of the 1917 Russian revolution that led into the Stalinist era. Many revolutions throughout history follow the same path as the newly installed government always become indistinguishable from those who ruled before them. The reasons exhibited in the novel are the distortion of revolutionary ideas, the abuse of language to manipulate the naïve working class and the corrupting influence of power.

In novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, he mentions the animals in the farm they all have the vision of freedom after Old Major’s prediction. They rebilled against the farmers and after their victory they tasted the revolution. The farm was renamed “Animal Farm” and made the constitution of the manor – “the seven commandments.” Soon there is a split on the revolution between the pigs, Snowball was declared as an enemies of the revolution. Since then Napoleon and Squealer obtained the leadership of the farm, immediately they have more power and more preferential treatment, they gradually moved away from other animals, and eventually become exploiters for exactly the same as humans, the original ideals of animal farm name is also be abandoned. One theme of animal farm is that we need to have a clever mind to see through unfair trick, before it is too late.