Animal Farm Quote Analysis

Quote #1 - “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ̶ George Santayana

In order for a revolution to be successful, there are many components and stages that play into it. Matter of fact, George Didi-Huberman, the author of the article Uprisings argues that there are five different parts: elements, gestures, words, conflicts, and desires. Each part is unique and significant in its own way. This can be noted from analyzing different revolutions and rebellions throughout time and the outcome of them. Agreeing with Didi-Huberman, I will provide examples of each division and demonstrate how each one is necessary.

Boxer’s qualities directly relate to the Soviets working class due to his intelligence level. It is established that Boxer is not the most academic oriented animal in the farm as stated in the text, “Boxer could not get beyond the letter D” (Orwell, 33). The working class during this era were not given educational opportunities which prevented them from achieving a higher intelligence and better jobs in society. However, this is an is an enormous flaw in both parties because it allows someone like Stalin or Napoleon to take control over them and allow them not to think for themselves which happens in both Animal Farm and

The United States of America has been in turmoil ever since the election of president Donald Trump. Most of this disorder is caused by the many lies that Trump has spread since (and before) his inauguration in mid-January of 2017. According to an article from ThinkProgress written by Ryan Koronowski titled Trump broke 64 promises in his first month in office, on Trump’s first day in office, Trump broke 34 out of 36 promises he made. Some of these assurances include social reforms, trade announcements, budget cuts, amendment proposals, and much more. Currently, Trump’s administration is full of contradicting statements and unfulfilled promises that continue to stack up. Many of these statements are deleted from Trump’s Twitter account after he says the opposite viewpoint in an

Orwell uses imagery to depict Boxer’s loyalty to Napoleon and his dullness. “His two slogans, ‘I will work harder’ and ‘Napoleon is always right,’ seemed to him a sufficient answer to all his problems” (Orwell 61). In other words, Boxer motivates himself by saying things like “Napoleon is always right,” and “I will work harder.” Boxer never questions anything on the farm, because apparently to him ,”Napoleon is always right.” This is evidence of the pigs’ brainwashing of the animals, because animals like Boxer always believe the pigs no matter what they

Corruption of Animal Farm Corruption is a bad thing that can ruin a great thing and can happen anywhere like a government, business, or a farm. Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell were the animals are treated very badly so they rebel against their leader and start a new farm called Animal Farm. After the rebellion life on animal farm was great,everyone get along, they have plenty of food,and have a set of rulesthat everyone follows,even the leaders and everything is great until corruption happens. The factors ignorance,power hoarding behavior, and manipulation the leader that was in charge at the time, but manipulation was the most influential. To begin, the first factor which is ignorance is shown throughout the book in many ways.

“Startled, the animals stopped in their tracks. It was Clover’s voice. She neighed again, and all the animals broke into a gallop and rushed into the yard. Then they saw what Clover had seen. It was a pig walking on his hind legs….He carried a whip in his trotter.

Napoleon: A large Berkshire boar who administers Animal Farm after the rebellion. He uses nine dogs, which he raised since they were pups, to make other animals accept his offers and rules.

To add on, the boy’s only depend on violence as their answer to survival, which causes them to turn into ruthless savages. These boy’s have no clue as to when they’ll be rescued or if anyone knows they’ve gone missing, so survival skills are crucially vital while being stranded. There’s so many options to choose from in order to survive, but their only process of thought is to use the skills of violence in order to survive. In the novel it states, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood,” (Golding 96). On the island, pigs are one of their main sources of food and most of the boys spent their day hunting them down and killing them. It started to become ridiculous when violence was their only thought. This is evident when the text states,

The pigs in Animal Farm by George Orwell are of much intelligence, which was not always a tremendous thing for the other animals. Education can be a powerful thing in society, which Orwell has made clear, but the pigs take advantage of it as much as possible. The animals give in to the pigs’ domination in Animal Farm by not being as smart as the pigs, Napoleon using the dogs to instill fear, and the pigs taking advantage of their own intelligence. In particular, the other animals on the farm are not as bright. It does not help that the pigs do not put in much time to try to even teach them the alphabet.

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell is an allegorical novel published on England in 1945. According to the author, this book reflects historical events leading up and during the Stalin era before World War II. It is the story of a revolution which goes wrong, based on the Russian revolution and Stalin’s use of power, the overall message is that man’s desire for power makes a classless society impossible. In the book, each animal represents a public figure or a type of person in real life. With this we can begin to develop the questions below in order to have a more complete idea of the meaning of the novel.

Orwell continues to represent class on the farm through the character of Boxer. Boxer represents the lower, working class who were uneducated and inferior to the nobles and government, in this case the pigs and dogs. ‘I will work harder.’ and ‘Napoleon is always right.’ his mottos show just how loyal and hard-working he was. Boxer would work and work until he was at the point of collapsing and this is just what the working class of Russia would do, slaving away their today for a better tomorrow. Boxer is key in building the windmill, which represents change, the change that Boxer wants to bring to the farm through his hard work and determination. Boxer may have had all these credits but what Orwell uses Boxer to say is that no matter how physically strong you are, it’s nothing compared to knowledge and mental strength. When Napoleon tells Boxer he is to retire after he collapsed whilst working, Boxer naively gets on the van that is not really to take him to where he will retire, but to the knackers’ yard to be killed. Even though Boxer was so driven and committed in what he did, he wasn’t able to spot that Napoleon was tricking him because he wasn’t nearly as well educated as Napoleon. So to cut a long story short, the fact that Boxer was poorly educated eventually lead to his demise.

People observing peaceful rebellious acts are prompted to consider the reasons behind such actions, and an ambitions desire to create a positive change can arouse in the minds of such

Napoleon, the leader of all the animals of the Rebellion, can be compared and contrasted with Big Brother, the leader of all the people of 1984. Both Big Brother and Napoleon show the qualities of a cruel ruler. Similar to Big Brother, Napoleon is a secretive plotter who works behind the scenes rather than openly. However, unlike Napoleon, Big Brother periodically appears on the television screen. Napoleon and Big Brother both work continually to weaken their rivals, whether it is by removing Snowball or eliminate Rutherford. Both place importance on complicated ceremonies and parades to prevent their workers from thinking about their schemes. Napoleon’s control over animal farm is not as powerful as Big Brother's

As soon as the revolution starts, Boxer is more devoted than ever to the farm. At the Battle of the Cowshed, Boxer is trying to prove his loyalty to the farm by defending the animals against a stable boy with kicking him with his hoof. “I will work harder.”(Orwell 25)The quote reveals his hard work and devotion to other animals and the farm. Though Boxer is very strong, he is also very naïve. The pigs bossed him around, being blindly loyal to Napoleon. “Napoleon is always right”(Orwell 48) When he says this, it demonstrates that he does not understand that the pigs are using him. He believes that everything Napoleon says is just. While others are trying to learn how to read Boxer does not feel the need he only wants to work harder for the good of the animal farm. Unfortunately, at the end of the book, he is so worn down that he cannot work anymore, so the pigs make the decision to send him to be slaughtered. At this point Boxer realizes that pigs have used him and was not loyal to the animals like he was. Boxer represents the Russian working-class in the Soviet