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Examples Of Equality In Animal Farm By George Orwell

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Most people want to be equal, in order for this to happen, people need to have equivalent rights and opportunities. When someone tries to manage a society, they often need some form of equality to keep everything in order. In the allegorical novella, Animal Farm, George Orwell shows that equality is essential for a society to thrive. He shows this through life being better when the power is balanced between Napoleon and Snowball, how the life of the animals becomes harder when the pigs have more power, and when Napoleon has all the power, life becomes just as poor as when the humans were in control. Life seems to be better when the power is balanced between Napoleon and Snowball. After the humans are overthrown, the animals try to create a …show more content…

After the pigs meet with the humans, the animals see the pigs walking out of the house on two legs with whips in their trotters, which causes the animals to be shocked: “It was a pig walking on his hind legs. Yes, it was Squealer… And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs… and out came Napoleon himself… He carried a whip in his trotter” (Orwell 131-132). The animals soon realize what is happening on the farm, the pigs are starting to act like humans. It is clear that the pigs are exactly like humans, as it is expressed at the resolution of the novella: “ Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 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” (Orwell 139). Since the animals cannot tell the difference between the pigs and the humans, the farm is back to the same place, which is what caused the Rebellion to happen formerly. All the animals went through extremely exhausting work just to end up where they started

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