Animal Farm: Innocents or Lying for Power

One night, all the animals of Mr. Jones’ farm, gather together in the barn to listen to Old Major, the pig, tell them about a dream he had, in which no animal had to live under the reign of human owners which would happen after a large rebellion against the people that treated them as slaves. After his death, which occurred only three nights after that meeting, the rest of the animals spent months working on plans to make the rebellion that Old Major had spoken of, into a reality. In the beginning the pigs, particularly Snowball and Napoleon, which had naturally become the leaders, faced difficulties convincing the other animals that this was the right thing to do.

The animals want to escape humans, but what happens when one of their own turns on them? The story Animal Farm by George Orwell, Is about the animals on Mr. Jones's Manor Farm. The Oldest pig is Old Major, and he describes a dream he had. His dream was of the animals rebelling against the humans. A few days later, Old major dies in his sleep and Two new pigs take power, Snowball and Napoleon. Then make the rules of Animalism called the seven amendments. Napoleon wants to be in full control, so he uses guard dogs he raised to banish Snowball and then lies and says Snowball is a “bad guy”. Napoleon continues to change things until he is the unquestioned ruler of the farm. The theme corruption can change people. The story shows this through Napoleon's dialogue, actions, and appearance.

Animal Farm begins on Manor Farm, where overworked, tired, and hungry animals are unhappy in the conditions that they are in, but when an old boar named Old Major introduces the idea of a rebellion and encourages the animals to take control over the farm, the animals begin an uprising against the humans, taking control over the land and renaming the farm “Animal Farm.” However, greedy and corrupt leaders rise to power and turn a once prosperous farm, into a nightmare. In Animal Farm, George Orwell asserts the idea that absolute power results in corruption. Napoleon and the other pigs, interested in remaining superior, persuades the other animals by using intimidation and emotional appeals in order to keep control of the gullible animals.

Animal Farm takes a political allegorical stance, so by using a political stance with the animals and how they run Manor Farm. Integrating with how the novel reveals itself that. The pigs and dogs are falling into becoming the humans that they despise in a physical and mental way. The political stance shows the true colors of Manor Farm. The pigs representing the leaders and the dogs acting as their guard to protect them.

To fully take control over Animal Farm, the government spread the message that the farm could not prosper or function without the pigs. This message allowed the pigs to gain many privileges in the farm without question. From the very beginning of the story, the other animals regarded the pigs as the smartest of all the animals in the farm. Because of this, it was naturally assumed that the pigs should lead the farm into rebellion against the humans and guide the animals into a better life. However, the pigs gained more control than the other animals thought they would. The pigs, especially Squealer, convinced the other animals that they should be allowed special privileges because they were shouldering the most “burdens” of all the

From the very beginning, Napoleon and the pigs take charge and make the other animals do the work for them, while the pigs just supervise. In chapter three, when they begin working on plowing the fields, the pigs do not do anything other than tell the others what to do, “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the other” (20). The pigs, from the very start of animal farm, took charge and only directed and told others what to do. They solidified their positions as leader’s right at the beginning of the farm. Also, at the end of the book, the pigs, to show their leadership, carry whips around to make sure the work gets done, “After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters” (92). Since the creation of the farm the pigs started to slowly present the fact that they would take charge, and in the beginning when they were nice about it no one argued with them. By the end though, the animals finally realized what had happened, but by then it was too late for them to do anything about it. Admittedly, Napoleon and the rest of the pigs are greedy because they take all the extra food and make the others work like slaves, but that does not make them ineffective in the ways they make the animals work. Napoleon showed his effectiveness as a

It is immediately decided that the pigs will be the leader of the farm, as they are the most intelligent animals there. This gives them the power over the other animals, even though they claim they are all equal. Since they are in charge, it is easier for them to weave ideas in to the susceptible minds of the others. Once they are proven to be

In chapter 7 Napoleon began punishing and executing the animals who he believed to be traitors, by forcing them to confess to “crimes” that they committed. Through this, it is obvious that although the pigs goal is to keep humans out of animal farm, and make sure that the animals are safe, it is causing a sense of fear and terror in the animals. This also shows how the animals have no freedom of

At the start of the story, the animals of Manor Farm begin to comprehend that their means of existence is to slave away to the needs of Mr. Jones or man in general. They then make a successful attempt to take over the farm in a rebellion. However, later on in the story they were able to slip back into the grasp of oppression since the pigs become corrupt due to their high position of power in the farm. The pigs are so blinded by greed that they don’t even bother to see how much the animals are suffering. At the end, the pigs are now the new Mr. Jones and so closely resemble man that the rest of the animals cannot even tell the difference between them. Showing the reader that one of the main themes that Animal Farm contains is the abuse of power with language.

In contrast, the Animals in animal farm have their power taken from them in front of their eyes, however, a combination of low intelligence and pigs capitalising on animal stupidity leads to the animals believing they are free and in power while they actually are not at all, the animals definitely have

Animal farm is a book that describes the harsh reality of inequality and injustices towards people of different races in the form of animals on a farm. In a fictional world, talking animals on a farm overthrow the owner, Mr. Jones, and drive him out of his own farm. These shockingly human animals have many of the characteristics that humans have, notably greed and social class differences. In Animal Farm, the revolution and rule of the animals is used as a metaphor to show how corrupt power can lead to inequality and unfair social classes.

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.

Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. It is an allegory in which animals play the roles of Russian revolutionists, and overthrow the human owners of the farm. Once the farm has been taken over by the animals, they are all equal at first, but class and status soon separates the different animal species. This story describes how a society’s ideologies can be manipulated by those in political power, to cause corruption by those in leadership.

Describe an important character in your novel and explain why he/she is important. The book animal farm was written by a British writer named George Orwell and was first published on August 1945. Even though the book is about 70 years old it is still popular and relevant today. The book all started when Old Major (a boar) had a dream where no human beings are controlling them. Then one night, the animals overthrew Mr. Jones (farm owner) due to being underfed and made rules that makes them happy. Later on in the novel Napoleon (the animal’s leader) became greedy and selfish, he sold his most loyal and hardworking worker to buy more whisky and became more human-like. Then the life condition of the animals was worse than before, and they have leaders that are making them unhappy. In the book Animal Farm the character that I find interesting is a pig named Snowball. Snowball is a young and intelligent pig who has similar thinking of Old Major. He opposes Napoleon in many different ways like Snowball persuading the animals to build a windmill while Napoleon disagrees with it. Snowball is persuasive and fluent in speaking and his plans are for good for the farm and the animals working for it. Snowball’s place in the farm is being one of the leaders of the farm after the Rebellion and before he got chased by Napoleon’s trained dogs out of the farm. The way Snowball interacts with other animals is through organizing meetings in the barn where every animal get to vote. His other way

The story starts with Old Major giving an advice to the animals. Old Major advices the animals to be in “perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle”, that they are in now and will be in the future (Orwell 10). The exposition establishes the situation the animals are in and going to be facing. They are at a time when humans are using them to their own benefits. Old Major himself says “the whole of the produce” of the animals’ “labour is stolen from” them “by the human beings” (Orwell 7). The animals find themselves in a similar situation in the ending. The animals peak into the dining-room window to find the pigs interacting with the humans, speaking about the farm. The animals find out from their conversation that the “farm” is considerably “owned and operated by the pigs” (Orwell 137). In the end the animals serves for the pigs’ benefits. What is ironic is that the animals were aiming for complete and perfect equality but they ended in a world which was the same as when Jones was controlling the farm, a world of humans and inequality. The basis of animalism is that “all animals are equal” and that “all men are enemies” (Orwell 10-11). The animals dreamt “of the earth as it will be when Man” is “vanished” (Orwell 11). All the battles were a way for the animals to overthrow