Character Analysis Of George Orwell's Animal Farm

Animal Farm, by George Orwell, uses real world examples to link a specific purpose to the unfortunate society. This novel is relevant to the world because in today’s society. Power is often misused and abused. Today’s world if full of scandals by people misusing funds, abuse of power, and taking advantage of the innocent.. To link this novel even more to the real word, Orwell compares Animal Farm to the Russian revolution, which leads to symbols throughout this novel. Authors today are extremely different from Orwell. Some of the symbolic meanings are the barn, the windmill, the Russian revolution, the seven commandments, and the battle of the cowshed, with a multitude of more. In the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell incorporates three

a. Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is an allegory due to the usage of the concept of animals on a farm, which is usually a lighthearted subject, being used to reflect the events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. The events in the story also reflect on the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. In the beginning of the story, the Major, whom is an old middle white boar, encourages the other animals to start a rebellion. He wanted to kick out the owner of the farm, Mr. Jones, so that animals may instead rule the farm. “Why then do we continue in this miserable

Napoleon uses the nine dogs so that they only are submissive to him and no one else. The KGB hired more than 200,000 border guards, security troops, and a secret service for Russia, which was structured beside military lines, with its followers having military positions. The difference between the KGB and the nine dogs is that Orwell forgot to include one of the KGB main functions as a secret organization, which furthermore provided spies an underground and closed-businesses to gather data about the country and its military and political power. Furthermore, the KGB had thousands of employees while the dogs only had nine members. Additionally, the actual–occurring events and importance of the KGB was amplified in the minds of many people in the Western world by the creation of material with the theme of spying and secret operations focused on literary, film, and television productions. The role of the KGB can be considered as a ruthless, crushing machine because of their high power and numerous workers, “When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess [and later be slaughtered]” (Orwell 84). Orwell portrays the nine dogs as terrifying and intimidating creatures that are merciless and would take a life if commanded to, just like how the KGB in Russia

What is a characteristic of a lion? Many would answer with physical characteristics such as a carnivore or a wild cat, but our language has a way of connecting physical characteristics with emotions such as if someone is big means they are considered dominant, or someone who smiles is considered friendly. The same process can happen with the animal kingdom. A lion is considered noble or brave. When a person thinks about different animals, they think of different human characteristics. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the book portrays these characteristics by creating pigs as leaders and dogs as followers, and horses as hard workers. This book is read in schools throughout the country, and helps students realize that through its simplicity, we can take away morals and lessons through a “child’s” classic. This book should be kept in the schools’ must read list because students are able to reflect on mistakes in history, realize the different ways of leadership, and also depict the ways of different social classes that can all become lessons in students lives.

In any flourishing society, the occupants change, grow, and even evolve to become greater and more efficient. Animal farm will provide the necessary structure for this to happen. This structure will be carried out by requiring every animal to go to school and become educated from a young age, work an equal amount of time each day, and follow the rules made by the council. Animals will be provided with a healthy amount of food based off each animal’s intake and any personalized medical or other needs will be attended to.

A quote from Wayne Dyer, a late American author and motivational speaker, says that “[f]reedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.” This promotes the idea that ultimate freedom to control one’s life is the only way to live. One way to achieve this freedom, if not given, is to stage a revolution against authority. In Animal Farm, a novel by George Orwell, parallels are drawn between his characters and the major figures of the Communist movement. On the Manor Farm, a group of animals long for a break from the oppression of the farmer, Mr. Jones. Lead by the wise boar Old Major, the farm animals stage a revolt and overthrow all humans, taking control and renaming their land “Animal Farm.” Although at first the society free from humans seems utopian, soon a group of pigs takes harsh control of the others, manipulating them into thinking that life is still perfect. By the end, the power struggle has gone full circle; pigs and humans are no longer distinguishable. Throughout this novella, the literary elements of irony, symbolism, personification and conflict are present, which convey ideas about Communism, language, and utopian societies.

George Orwell includes a strong message in his novel Animal Farm that is easily recognizable. Orwell’s Animal Farm focuses on two primary problems that were not only prominent in his WWII society, but also posed as reoccurring issues in all societies past and present. Orwell’s novel delivers a strong political message about class structure and oppression from the patriarchal society through an allegory of a farm that closely resembles the Soviet Union.

This essay will examine how Orwell portrays the characters and develops the plot in the last chapter of Animal Farm to demonstrate the satirical techniques utilised in the text, such as allusion, sarcasm, exaggeration, metaphor and irony, to undermine Russian revolution indirectly.

There are many themes in the book Animal farm by George Orwell. The main one being corruption of leadership, there are so many indications of this being the theme for example, when Napoleon the pig changes the wording of the 7 commandments to suit his and the other pigs wants. He first does this when the pigs start sleeping in beds. The commandments stated that “no animal shall sleep in a bed” once the pigs start sleeping in beds they changed the rule that no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets. “A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention.” Every time the pigs change a rule they would put Squealer on damage control to convince the rest of animals that it was always like that or that the pigs needed it more than the other animals did.

1A. Mr. Jones is a significant character because his actions and bad deeds provoked the animal rebellion, similarly to how Tsar Nicholas II ignorance led his abdication, ending the Romanov rule and replacing it with the new Bolshevik government (Krieger 185). Moreover, in the story, the animals replaced what used to be “Manor Farm” to “Animal Farm”, and Orwell does this to resemble the transformation of Russia’s government. There are other events in the story that parallel the true events that resemble Tsar Nicholas. For example, similarly to how Nicholas II failed to help the Russian people when they were facing hunger – due to warfare, and food shortages – Mr. Jones’ farm animals too were also neglected and underfed, both of which

Important to the story are the characters because they put a deeper meaning into a story. As seen in Orwell's book animal farm as he makes the animals and the other characters represent people during the Russian revolution. You can see this with Mr. Jones as orwell uses him to represent Czar Nicholas 2 of the Russian revolution. Overall, the character with the most influence on the story out of all the animals on Animal Farm is Mr. Jones, but nevertheless the other animals had a major impact on the story.

Vladimir Lenin once said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth”. The poor and

Examples of this can be found in chapter six where rumors of the pigs sleeping in the

George Orwell, author of many essays and books, such as “such, such were joys” and “a nice cup of tea.” it seems that George Orwell had a very simple style and his writings mostly contains collections of essays, normally on politics and the government, but sometimes when he does not write essays he writes amazing stories, still about politics. Orwell is most likely known for winning the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award for his most well known book “The Animal Farm.” this work of satirical fiction is amazing in showing anyone who wanted to inform themselves about the dangers and logical outcome of Communism during World War II.

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.