Characters In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Orwell shows that Mr Jones does not have complete power over his animals and that the animals had the capacity to overthrow him. The rebellion of the animals is another way of how power is shown in Animal Farm.

In the book Animal Farm, Mr. Jones is based off of Tsar Nicholas. Mr. Jones is the farmer/owner of Manor Farm, because he treated his animals so badly they overthrew him and kicked him of the farm. In the novel Animal Farm, Mr. Jones is seen as Tsar Nicholas ii in that they both play the same role in their society, they were both seen as enemies, and were against communism/ animalism.

The character helps understand the theme in the story, that individuality must be treasured in our society, because it shows what the emotional and physical links to the society in the book, as well as the mental states and feelings influencing the text.

One magnificent part of Orwell’s Animal Farm is the fact that many of the characters show a great amount of symbolism. Two perfect examples of this are the pig Old Major, and the maleficent Farmer Jones. When the old pig is close to dying, Old Major tells the animals that after his death, he feels that a rebellion against man will happen in the animal world. He practically lays down his suggestions of how the rebellion should occur: all

The characters in Orwell’s Animal Farm represent real people that played major roles in World War I. Farmer Jones is the owner of the farm before the animal uprising. He represents

The book Animal Farm by George Orwell, is an allegory for the Russian Revolution. One allegory can be seen through Czar Nicholas II, who represents Mr.Jones. In Animal Farm the animals defeat and overthrow Mr.Jones, a bad farmer who mistreats his animals. The animals try to recover from the horrible reign of Mr.Jones, and the story is about how they live after overthrowing the farmer. Czar Nicholas II and Mr.Jones both struggled with their subjects and eventually were not fit to be a leader anymore so lost the right.

He does this by writing in a way that demonstrates how even as the identity of the part differs the effects of it remain constant. Stated in the text is, “Jones and all his men…were coming up the cart-trade that led to the farm…every animal was at his post…the next moment all the animals together were chasing them round and round the yard.” (Orwell 16) Later on in the story you can find this text evidence: “Sentinels were places at all the approaches to the farm…Frederick and his followers had already come through the five-barred gate…Boldly enough the animals sallied forth to meet the men…they charged forth in a body and made straight for the enemy.” (Orwell 39) These pieces of text show two different occasions in which the enemy characters at the time are coming to attack the farm. Jones and Frederick are somewhat different people with different relationships to the animals. Jones was the drunk of a farmer that previously owned Animal Farm and failed to take proper care of the animals and treat them justly. Frederick was the tough, deceitful overseer of the neighboring farm Pinchfield who often abused his animals. However, all these differentiations can be put aside since they were both in the role of “enemy”. Because of what character part they were filling, their presence in the book resulted in the same effects on the animals. They

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.

not a reliable narrator and he cared for making the story alive and making readers feel to

Jones. When giving a speech to the animals Old Major says, “The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth”(Orwell 7). This illustrates how unhappy the animals are with the way that they are being treated. They are fed the bare minimum, and are enslaved to work for Mr. Jones against their will. Later when Old Major is speaking to the animals he says, “That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!”(Orwell 9). This demonstrates how the animals are considering rebellion. They are planning on rebelling against Mr. Jones to gain back their freedom. The animals were fighting Mr. Jones and the neighboring farmers when, “all the sheep... rushed forward and prodded and butted the men from every side”(Orwell 41). The animals were trying to keep the farmers from taking back the farm. In doing so, they were sacrificing their safety in order to keep the freedom they fought for earlier in the book. To conclude, the animals had to fight in order to gain their freedom from Mr. Jones.

Orwell uses Jones as an in between. Jones was thought to be a horrible person who hated his animal, but in truth he was a forgetful drunk who owned a small farm. He tried to care for his animas, but failed and in doing so he lost his farm and most everything on it. Jones did have the power on the farm before the rebellion, but he was in no way a dictator to the standards of Napoleon. That is why Squealer must remind the animal of which bad Jones was, when he really wasn’t. The pigs say, “Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?” a number of times just to keep the animals from thinking that life with Jones was any better than the harsh rule of Comrade Napoleon. Orwell has Squealer question the animals as if they were traitors if they answer incorrectly. Squealers question was so obvious to the animals that it did not even demand a response. The question seemed as if there was no other answer than ‘yes’ even if an animal felt otherwise. Everything was forced upon these ‘free’ creatures. Jones himself symbolizes a time before the unforgiving monarchy that leads the farm now. Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the

Mr Jones, the farmer in the book was seen as the most evil to the animals. The animals viewed Mr. Jones as evil because they explained that Mr. Jones made them work too hard and did not feed the animals as much as they should have been fed.. So Old Major , the original and oldest leader of Animal Farm introduced the idea to take over Mr. Jones farm and make the farm theirs. “There Comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-man. Man is the only real enemy we have”(Orwell 6). Old major was saying the only enemy the animals has between them and freedom, was man which the man Old Major was referring to was Mr Jones, the animal's owner. After Old Major died, a pig named snowball took over for Old Major and led the animals to rebellion. The animals first battle against the humans, (Mr. Jones and his men) “The Battle of the Cowshed” showed the humans and the animals that the animals want to control themselves and they are capable of doing so.Snowball said, “War is war. The only good human being is a dead one”(Orwell 31). During the first battle, Boxer, the horse killed a human on accident. He felt very bad about it, but snowball and the rest of the animals reminded Boxer that it was better to kill a human than be controlled by one. The animals had to do what was the best for them to stay on

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.

“Old major… was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say” (Orwell 1). The author, George Orwell, portrayed Old Major as the wisest of all the animals on the farm, and without being said, Major was a big part of Animal Farm. In fact, he influenced the lives of all the animals with just one speech. On the day of this speech, Major taught all the animals his wise ideas in a kind supporting way. “Major’s speech had given to the more intelligent animal in the farm a new outlook on life” (Orwell 35). Truly, Major died with a purpose, which was to give hope that, with a rebellion, everything can change for the better. In fact,

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.