Animals Take Over in Animal Farm by George Orwell

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a satire of the Russian Revolution. The animals overthrow the evil dictator Mr. Jones and create a government where all animals are equal. The first year is prosperous, but slowly the animals start to lose their quality of life. The animals start to notice that their lives are getting worse, but the pigs are getting better. However, the quick thinking pigs always find an excuse to appease the other animals. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm to point our the gullibility of the Proletariat. He comments on this political issue through symbolism, allusions, and personification.

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” That was when the animals knew the pig’s use of propaganda was so effective. Before the animals discovered the corruptness of the pigs, the animals of Manor Farm in England, irritated with the ways of life and how they are being treated, decided to start a revolution. The smartest of the animals, the pigs, took control of the farm while the other animals worked. Through the deception of the pigs, they changed the rules of the farm to better accommodate themselves. George Orwell’s historical literature work, Animal Farm, is a political allegory to the Russian Revolution. Orwell tries to convey

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is, first and foremost, a political satire warning against the pursuit of utopian desires through unjust and oppressive means. Operating under the pretense of an animal fable, Orwell disparages the use of political power to poach personal freedom. He effectively alerts his readers to the dangerous price that can accompany the so-called “pursuit of progress”. And he illuminates how governments acting under the guise of increasing independence often do just the opposite: increase oppression and sacrifice sovereignty. While the cautionary theme Orwell provides proves widely applicable, in reality his novel focuses on one tale of totalitarian abuse: Soviet Russia. The parallels between the society Orwell presents in his Animal Farm and the Soviet Union – from the Russian revolution to Stalin’s supremacy – are seemingly endless. Manor Farm represents Tsarist Russia, Animalism compares to Stalinism, and Animal Farm, with the pig Napoleon at its helm, clearly symbolizes Communist Russia and Joseph Stalin. But Orwell does more than simply align fiction with fact. He fundamentally attacks Soviet Russia at its core. And in so doing he reveals how the Communist Party simply replaced a bad system with a worse one, overthrowing an imperial autocracy for a totalitarian dictatorship. This essay will demonstrate that Orwell’s Animal Farm is

Elie Wiesel in Night and Snowball from Animal Farm are very similar characters because they were victimized by tyrants and used as scapegoats, but they are also unique and individual characters because Elie knew he was being taken advantage of and Snowball did not. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell, and it is about a farm of animals that take over the farm. Napoleon, a large pig, slowly takes away food and supplies from the other animals until he starts walking on two feet and becomes a “human.” Because of him Snowball is expelled from the farm and acts as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong on the farm. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel, and in it Elie tells the story of he was taken from his home and put into a concentration camp under the control of Adolf Hitler.

George Orwell’s novel ‘Animal Farm’ is an allegorical fable of the Russian Revolution. It depicts the Revolution in a way that is inoffensive to people and also very easy to understand. This controversial novel also teaches many valuable lessons, all very true in man’s past and also in the present.

Animal Farm, written by George Orwell in 1943 is one of the greatest allegories the world has ever seen. This allegory about the Russian Revolution is delivered to the audience in a story about a diverse group of animals on a farm in England who use the words of an old pig to come up with the concept of ‘Animalism’ and rebel against their human master and begin to run the farm themselves. In the development of their supposed utopia, several problems arise and a dystopic reality sets in. by using the techniques of negative characterisation, anthropomorphism and dystopia, Orwell explores the ideas of power and control through manipulation and through this positions the audience to understand that the characteristics of greed, manipulation and violence are animalistic qualities which make us less than human.

People respond to control and power differently for various reasons, however, one of the main reasons is based on their personality; their confidence and intelligence. In, Animal Farm by George Orwell, confidence and intelligence is a big factor for why certain animals obtained power and control and why other ones did not. People with confidence and intelligence are likely to gain most of the control and power. People with little intelligence, but lots of confidence are more likely to have some power or work underneath the leader. People with intelligence, but no confidence seem to have no power at all and shy away from it. Both intelligence and confidence are needed for someone to take total power. Therefore, the amount of confidence and intelligence a person has will decide how they respond to control and power.

“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.

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

George Orwell’s Animal Farm reflects the events of the Russian Revolution and the Stalin era in the Soviet Union through the story of a seemingly simplistic farm controlled by animals. One night, Old Major, a prize-winning boar, gives a speech on the idea that all of humanity is evil and rebellion is necessary to achieve freedom. After Old Major dies shortly after his speech, three pigs, Squealer, Snowball, and Napoleon, decide to take control and form the ideas of Old Major into a philosophy—Animalism—with seven principles inscribed in a barn to help maintain harmony amongst the animals. After driving out the human workers, the animals celebrate and begin their own farm. However, problems arise as Napoleon drives Snowball out and begins controlling

George Orwell’s 1945 allegorical and dystopian novel, Animal Farm is an in-depth work about corruption and how society functions in its ways. In a unique style, Orwell uses these animals on the farm as figures to replace the humans in our life and society so we as readers can take a step back and see our culture as it truly is, without blurring our vision with emotions about other humans. Through his use of anthropomorphism, Orwell accentuates certain characteristics we see in people. Some main topics I will cover are the oppression if the less intelligent animals, such as the sheep, the blind faith of Boxer, Mollie’s wish for the old civilization’s return, and the rise of the pigs. There is also precedence with how the animals overthrow the man in charge, an allusion to culture and counterculture.

Although, the intent of the revolution in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, penned in 1945, was to make all animals equal, a class system emerges. At first, the creatures recognized they all had strengths and weaknesses, but the pigs soon emerged as the leader. The society, initially, developed Seven Commandments...soon all were deleted and replaced with one: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” (Orwell 134). Under the safeguard of the dogs, Napoleon and the other pigs strengthen their relentless authority and begin executing any society member they consider useless or a threat to their power. This symbolized a representation of socialism moving towards communism, which was Russia’s government at the time the book was written. Under this rule, the vulnerable and oppressed were subjected to corrupt and brutal authority.

In the political satire Animal Farm by George Orwell, it presents a story of farm animals in a society parallel to the communist rule in the Soviet Union. The farm is ruled by pigs that are regarded as the cleverest animals and the two leaders are Snowball and Napoleon. They approach politics differently, with Snowball being the idealist and Napoleon being the Machiavellian. Later in the story, Napoleon sought for power for himself and chased Snowball off of the farm. Under his rule, the farm became in state poorer than what it originally was before with the humans. Napoleon’s tactics to control the farm are ruthless; he used his position in power, fear, and propaganda to maintain his authority over the animals.

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.

In the story animal farm by George Orwell there are several animals representing different characteristics, some for which we feel sympathetic, and the others that we either feel angry or mad, due to their actions that are represented in the story. Orwell in this book is trying to represent the animals as human beings in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The three animals that caught my attention are Boxer, Napoleon, and Squealer. These three characters is what made up the Soviet Union. Boxer is represented as the working class or also known as the proletariats. Napoleon takes the role of Joseph Stalin, the Dictator of Soviet Russia. Finally, Squealer is represented as the propaganda or the government of the Soviet Union. In this book Orwell uses these animals to portray the soviet union during the cold war. In addition each animal a plays role, in which we feel sympathetic for a few and a few that we may be really mad or even get frustrated. Boxer in this story is a very loyal and a sympathetic horse. His loyalty towards Napoleon was something that was considerable but his master, Napoleon, whom he trusted Betrays him. Throughout the book Boxer had only two slogans which he kept repeating. ““His two slogans, ‘I will work harder’ and ‘Napoleon is always right”(p44). Orwell in this case is trying to represent the loyalty of the working class towards Stalin. However their loyalty is not acknowledged and therefore most proletariats are killed and become unnecessary