Examples Of Dishonesty In Animal Farm

At the beginning of the text, Napoleon believes in the revolution and everything it stands for. He is passionate about the cause and helps to create change in the farm. “All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings.” Napoleon felt the same about the rebellion as all the other animals did, he had lived the same life as the others up until after the rebellion. He felt he had been mistreated by humans and wished to see the farm become a place where all animals would be treated equally. Food would be abundant and the workload would be low, this is perhaps an ideal that most people would wish for, had they worked hard their whole life with little reward. Napoleon inspired the other animals by

Napoleon used force to gain control of Animal Farm, and used fear to keep it. When he and Snowball both led the other animals, they had many disagreements. Napoleon saw that Snowball was better at communicating with the animals, so he used the dogs which he had secretly trained to drive Snowball away – permanently. Napoleon used these dogs to keep all the animals ‘in line’ and quash any thought of rebellion with fear.

This all went very well for a while, but the revolution then took a drastic downfall. The animal’s freedom and individuality was slowly taken away. Napoleon took the dogs freedom away by “making them bow, “ and obey him only. The animals also began to have no freedom of speech, “ raised their voices timidly but they were promptly silent by a tremendous growling,” which shows us that the farm was no longer run by all the animals but rather by the pigs, anything they say is right and you may not argue. The animals no all had to be the same, which can be taken as equality, but it was taken to the extreme. The animals had to call each other, “comrade,” and they weren’t even allowed to stick out in the smallest ways, ” Molly’s ribbons were taken,” which was fine at first but then slowly the animals started forgetting who they were.

In Animal Farm, the pigs used their superior knowledge to persuade the other animals into thinking whatever they say is true. The first example of this in the novel is when the pigs are caught sleeping in beds. Clover remembered a rule against animals sleeping in beds, but when she went to check, she found “...herself unable to read more than individual letters...”(47) When she finally finds someone that can read the rules, it seems as though it has changed. This lack of education shown in Clover allows the pigs to change one of the Seven Commandments. Yet another example of the pigs changing history is just a few chapters later. Originally, the sixth commandment stated that no animal shall kill another animal, however when the animals checked after the massacre put on by Napoleon, “It ran: "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause." (63) This once again goes to show that without education, these animals are susceptible to deception. The pigs realize the power they have and use it against the unintelligent animals in order to cover up their

This quote directly contradicts the statement that all animals are equal, the last of the 7 Commandments, and puts the pigs in a position of power over the other animals. If the rules of animalism had been followed, the animals would all be acknowledged as leaders and the pigs would also work for the farm. Throughout the novel, the pigs superiority and higher level of intelligence is mentioned, believed not only by the pigs, but by the animals as well. The animals, not in a position to know more and learn more, and the fact that they didn’t question the pigs’ authority, made it possible for the pigs to get away with breaking and changing rules, and acting more like the humans they had once hated.

Fortunately for him, he already wields the power of education, enabling him to rise almost effortlessly to power; “With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume leadership” (pg. 21). This is a subtle infraction of the principles clearly stated in the commandments of Animalism. Equality is supposed to apply to everyone and every situation, but the animals are accustomed to having a leader, therefore, it is second nature for them to rely on a person higher than them. Sadly for the majority of the naïve animals, the pigs ascend to power simply because the weapon of education is pointing at them and they are found weaponless and unable to defend themselves.

The overall goal for the animals was that, “all animals are [should be] equal”, but towards the end of the book the pigs started to say, “all animals are equal. But some are more equal than others” (Orwell 134). This defeats the whole the purpose of a communist and socialist society, all citizens living in that society are meant to be equal, but when a certain group of people get more praise than the other, everyone is no longer equal. Eventually, greed takes over and the want to get ahead gets in the way with the want of everyone being

Every time the pigs break a commandment and the animals go back to read it, there were more words added to them. For example, the Sixth Commandment said that “No animal shall kill any other animal,” but Napoleon ordered to kill all the animals that were still in contact with Snowball. Once the animals read the commandment again, it says, “No animal shall kill any other animal without a cause” (Orwell, 98). The animals soon didn’t mind the fact that Napoleon killed some of their friends and went back to work. The pigs then started walking on their hind legs like what humans do.

They made the commandments sound fair so that the animals would be attracted to them. The animals were under the impression that the pigs are fair, but they actually made the commandments so that they could tool with them and use them to their benefit. As a result of this, the pigs start to change the commandments, and they even change the biggest and most important one. “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.” (Orwell 134) This commandment was the foundation of Animalism. The pigs made this commandment, making the animals believe that they were in it together, as a farm. The pigs were only making the animals believe in

Good morning teachers and fellow students, my name is George Orwell, the author of the book “Animal Farm”. Today I will be addressing you about my novel to give you a better understanding of the text, and how I have created meaning in my novel. One of the main characters in my novel is Napoleon. In the novel there is the theme “the corruption of animalism”. One of my goals in writing Animal Farm is to portray the Russian Revolution. Many of the characters and events of my novel parallel those of the Russian Revolution: In short, Manor Farm is a model of Russia, and Old Major, Snowball and Napoleon represent the dominant figures of the Russian Revolution. I also described Stalin and communism in the Soviet Union as an insincere and a violent

The education of the farm was very disproportionate. The pigs who had the highest of knowledge viewed themselves as superior to the other animals who were less fortunate when it came to literacy. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change to world” (Nelson Mandela). This quote associates with Animal Farm because the pigs, mainly Napoleon, had a higher-level of understand compared to the other animals. And Napoleon used this knowledge to his advantage and took a hierarchy over the mindless animals. An example of this would be when Squealer announced to the animals that the pigs had taken the milk and apples because they were in need of them. ¨We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare¨ (page 36). Squealer was trying to scheme the other animals into thinking this was for their own good. The pigs abused their higher education in opposition to the knowledgeless animals. They also used their authority to get a room for their practices. ¨The pigs had set aside the harness-room as a headquarters for themselves¨ (page 31). These examples are some of the few ways the pigs showed a mastery over the other animals on the farm. Along with intelligence, the idea of Napoleon being superior to the other animals led to the farms downfall.

Joseph Stalin led in taking over Russia, in Animal Farm, Napoleon takes over the farm from the owner Mr. Jones. When Napoleon assumes responsibility of running the farm he changes the farm name to “Animal Farm”, this signifies the rebellion and the Revolution. With Napoleon in charge the former communist ruled farm changes to a socialist society where all the animals work together and attain the same amount of food and resources. This is what Stalin tried to create before returning to a communist society. By the end of the novel, Napoleon also goes back to communist rule which represents the idea that socialistic societies or utopian societies do not always work.

The meaning of social class in Animal Farm, comments how people are manipulated through the dishonesty of the pigs. For example, the narrator says “the importance

noticed that the pigs are treating themselves better than they treat others, just like the richer humans treat the poorer ones. For example, young pigs now wear green ribbons on their tails on Sundays, and all animals must stand aside if a pig is walking on the same path. Furthermore, they're discouraged from playing with other animals, and Napoleon has ordered us to build them a schoolhouse. Not only is there inequality within young animals, but only pigs can have beer, vote, and eat special meals. They even reserved the entire barely field for themselves. You never see them doing any labor, but they swear that they work more than we do by filling papers with writing, then burning them.

At beginning of the Novel, The landowners were the dominant characters and all the animals are submissive. All the animals lived by the rules of their landowners; the animals lived a life based on how their leader wants them to live, they worked for them, and their strength was abused, which provoked the animals to revolt with the help and support of their leader old major which is a pig. Their revolt went well and they overthrew their landowners. At first, the animals lived equally; they studied, and made the 7 commandments for the equality of all animals. Until two of the pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, struggled for power and after some time, social division came back and they found themselves under another dictatorship. That’s when the pigs became the dominant characters that led and dominated the farm and the rest of the animals became the submissive character who worked for the