Book Report on George Orwell's Animal Farm

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

“In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days”(Orwell 38). In Animal Farm George Orwell describes life for the animals on a farm in the english countryside during the mid to early 20th century before, during and after a revolution against their master Mr.Jones in order to represent the russian revolution and describe to people throughout the free world how leaders in both capitalist and communist societies oppress the working class as a result Orwell 's tone throughout the novel is concerned. Tsar Nicholas II led Russia into failure in the Russo-Japanese war as well as World War I and allowed the shootings of over one thousand protesters on Bloody Sunday; these actions inspired Orwell to create a representation of tsar Nicholas II in the character Mr.Jones who is known for being drunk and forgetful.

The characters in Animal Farm depict leaders, and people during the Cold War. There are multiple character throughout the novel, three of the most important in this story are Snowball, Squealer, and Napoléon. All three of these characters helped code Old Majors ideas into the Commandments of Animalism. The Commandments of Animalism are “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy’, “Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend”, “No animal shall wear clothes”, No animal shall sleep in a bed”, No animal shall drink alcohol”, “No animal shall kill another animal”, and “all animals are equal” (Daine and Hile). These commandments are created by the three characters together although they do not all cooperate very well.

Getting an education is an aspect that everyone needs to have; it’s something that is developed and learned not something that you are born with. We are lucky to have free education, in America, but some people don’t take advantage of this opportunity. It’s incredibly easy to get manipulated if you are less knowledgeable than someone else. In the allegorical novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, you can see how it’s so very different how the animals with an education are being treated and how the animals that don’t have an education are being treated. After reading this novel, there is a message that stood out to me which was people will take advantage of you if you do not have an education.

Jones from the farm, renaming it "Animal Farm". They adopt the Seven Commandments of Animalism, the most important of which is, "All animals are equal." When Major dies, two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, assume command and consider it a duty to prepare for the Rebellion. The animals revolt and drive the drunken and irresponsible farmer Mr. Jones from the farm, renaming it "Animal Farm". They adopt the Seven Commandments of Animalism, the most important of which is, "All animals are equal."

During the early 1900’s wars and revolutions were raging all around the world. George Orwell in Animal Farm expresses the political tendencies of those who have and those who lack education through characters such as Squealer, Napoleon, Muriel, and Benjamin. In Animal Farm, the message George Orwell sends to his audience is that there is power in obtaining an education that saves one from being bamboozled. The first way Orwell expresses the importance of education is through the pigs, who were the most educated animals on the farm. Within “three months” the pigs had “taught themselves to read and write,” which leads to them having the most power (Orwell 23).

Animal farm is a fictitious story based off Joseph Stalin’s Betrayal of the Russian Revolution. This book was written by George Orwell, August 17 1945. The genre of the book is fiction and political satire. The main characters in Animal Farm are Napoleon, Snowball, Old Major, Squelar, Mr.Jones, Boxer, Benjamin, Mr.Pilkington, Mr.Whymper, Mr.Frederick, Muriel, Clover, Moses,and Mollie. This book took place in the Russian Revolution of 1917 right before the Stalinist Era. The animals living on the manor farm were living in a bad place because their farmer Farmer Jones mistreated the and abused them. The animals had had enough, Old Major the leader of them all and a pig called a meeting of all the animals and told them about a dream he had the

Animal farm is a novel written by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) about the Russian revolution of 1917 and the following Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. This book depicts animals as humans, following the style of many older fables. Animal Farm could be read by many ages. It relates to historical figures without directly referencing them. As the story begins, it describes a farm where the animals are not treated fairly by humans and they believe that it is time for change.

Where there is good, there is evil. This simply implies that whatever you choose to do there is a purpose, either good or bad, even if unintentional. Everything in life has choice, even down to what you choose to say to others. Words are more powerful than we could imagine. They can be used for greeting one another, complimenting one another, but the meaning behind words can be manipulated. In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, he shows the worst of manipulation in a setting of war. He demonstrates that words are just as powerful as weapons. Not only is it an outstanding novel, but it warns us what words under propaganda can do, from “Glittering” to the “Plain Folks”, and even evoking fear. Words allow the intelligent pigs to play the animals like puppets, and return them to slavery.

The Narrator claims,“In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days”(Orwell 38). In Animal Farm, George Orwell describes life for the animals on a farm in the English countryside during the mid to early 20th century before, during and after a revolution against their master, Mr.Jones. Orwell does this to represent the Russian revolution and describe to people throughout the free world how leaders in both capitalist and communist societies oppress the working class. As a result Orwell 's tone throughout the novel is concerned. Tsar Nicholas II led Russia into failure in the Russo-Japanese war as well as World War I and allowed the shootings of over one thousand protesters

Animal Farm is a novel written in the 1945 by George Orwell that basically satires the tyranny of the Communist Soviet Union Government in the early 20th century. The government, people, and even other countries are being symbolized in this satire with the performance of talking domestic barn animals. In this novel, the animals are inspired by Old Major (old boar) to rebel against humans in order to achieve a state of justice and freedom for all animals. They will also need to embrace the ideas of Animalism and go thru a revolution against humans sooner or later. After the death of Old Major, Napoleon, a powerful hungry boar, comes into power becoming the dictator of the Animal Farm.

In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the animal’s take over the farm and develop their own independent society. The animals develop their own society because they are being mistreated by the farmer. They manage the farm by themselves and establish tranquility, until some animals desire greed and power more than the others. The representation of animals taking over the farm relates to communism during Orwell’s life.

? All animals are equal. The animals then proceed to the hay fields, where they make it their goal to get the harvest done faster than the humans ever could. Each animal does his or her share of the harvest, relative to his or her strength and size. Boxer, one of two carthorses on the farm and certainly the strongest animal, does most of the work, and the animals are able to finish the harvest in two days less time than the humans normally took. Within the first year of the animals’ revolution on the farm (which they had proceeded to name “Animal Farm';), news had spread to the neighboring areas, and Snowball and Napoleon send out groups of pigeons to spread the principles of Animalism. Not long after, however, one of these flights of birds spy a group of humans, led by Jones, coming down the path leading to Animal Farm. The pigs, which had been prepared for such a situation, get everyone to their posts, and Snowball sends out a group of pigeons to harass the humans as the other animals get ready for a larger attack. Then, the geese and sheep, led by Snowball, peck and ram the legs of the humans. Snowball orders this group to retreat, however, and the humans, thinking that the animals are retreating, begin to shout with joy. As they move further into the farm, the rest of the animals, including the three horses, come out of their hiding places, and successfully fight the humans off. Over the next few months, the animals hold

From sun up to sun down. Everything on the farm is running smoothly. Snowball the pig teasher the animal how to read and write. Neoplon teachers the young puppies on animalism and The pigs start to indifiy to eahother as commrades as if the a war. The only animal who is not king on the idea of animalis is mollie the horse who is concered baout giving up her red ribbion and eating sugar. Snowball harshly reminds her that riibions are symblize with slavery. Mollie agrees and the problem is

The rebellion was to escape from people and their cruel ways, but can they escape the death-grip of their own kind? The animals of animal farms are mistreated and have no rights. Mr and Mrs. Jones were the owners of Manor Farm, the human oppressors, and authoritarians of the animals. The animals rebel against the Jones and take over the farm. They create a utopian society for themselves, but the utopia quickly turns into a dystopia when the pigs take control of the farm. In many ways, Animal Farm is a complete allegorical / fable –like retelling of the founding of the Soviet Union, complete with a rebellion and eventual installation of a dictator. Like the ideological battle that was raged in Russia between the classes, the one that is played out in this novel have many of the same themes, including an initial push to strengthen the working class, a strong beginning movement of nationalism and unity, a series of successful efforts to topple the ruling authority (Mr. Jones), all followed by a complete totalitarian takeover by a dictator who is a hypocrite and goes back on many of the promises he made at the height of the revolutionary action.