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

Elie Wiesel in Night and Snowball from Animal Farm are very similar characters because they were victimized by tyrants and used as scapegoats, but they are also unique and individual characters because Elie knew he was being taken advantage of and Snowball did not. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell, and it is about a farm of animals that take over the farm. Napoleon, a large pig, slowly takes away food and supplies from the other animals until he starts walking on two feet and becomes a “human.” Because of him Snowball is expelled from the farm and acts as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong on the farm. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel, and in it Elie tells the story of he was taken from his home and put into a concentration camp under the control of Adolf Hitler.

People respond to control and power differently for various reasons, however, one of the main reasons is based on their personality; their confidence and intelligence. In, Animal Farm by George Orwell, confidence and intelligence is a big factor for why certain animals obtained power and control and why other ones did not. People with confidence and intelligence are likely to gain most of the control and power. People with little intelligence, but lots of confidence are more likely to have some power or work underneath the leader. People with intelligence, but no confidence seem to have no power at all and shy away from it. Both intelligence and confidence are needed for someone to take total power. Therefore, the amount of confidence and intelligence a person has will decide how they respond to control and power.

“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.

In the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the wisest boar of the farm, Old Major, mimics Karl Marx, the “Father of Communism,” and Vladimir Lenin, a Russian communist revolutionary. George Orwell introduces direct parallels between the respected figures through their mutual ideas of equality and profoundly appreciated qualities. Furthermore, his utilization of dialect and descriptions represent the key ideas of the novel. Throughout the novel, Orwell continues to show comparisons between Old Major and Karl Marx/ Vladimir Lenin that reveal their representation of one another.

“It’s always tough being the fat kid in school, it must be extra tough being the only fat kid in you entire country.” This is a quote about Kim Jong-Un who is notorious for being one of the most corrupted dictators ever. The reason he is corrupt is one simple word: power. The importance of our argument is that power corrupts those who posses it. There are corrupt people in this world who will do anything to gain power. This argument is based upon the themes represented in Animal Farm, created by George Orwell, it is an allegorical, satirical, dystopian novel. Power corrupts those who possess it because it leads to a destroyed society and an oppressive dictatorship, and much

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

In the political satire Animal Farm by George Orwell, it presents a story of farm animals in a society parallel to the communist rule in the Soviet Union. The farm is ruled by pigs that are regarded as the cleverest animals and the two leaders are Snowball and Napoleon. They approach politics differently, with Snowball being the idealist and Napoleon being the Machiavellian. Later in the story, Napoleon sought for power for himself and chased Snowball off of the farm. Under his rule, the farm became in state poorer than what it originally was before with the humans. Napoleon’s tactics to control the farm are ruthless; he used his position in power, fear, and propaganda to maintain his authority over the animals.

In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, he writes, “ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Regardless of whether one is born of royalty or poverty, everyone is born human. There is no different from President Obama or Kim Jung Un. Their title and ethnicity may differ from each other, but at the end of the day, they are both still human. No superpower is bestowed upon birth, or at least it is not common knowledge, only a baby is born at birth. One day that baby will grow up and decide to either pursue their dreams or limit itself and its potential due to societal standards. Societal influence has engrossed the masses to the point that people are more susceptible to suppressing their own ideas and thoughts in order to

"Of the golden future time.. Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown, and the fruitful fields of England shall be trod by beast alone. Rings shall vanish from our noses, and the harness from our back, bit and spur shall rust forever, cruel whips no more shall crack." This song gave the animals hope that one day life on the farm would be better. Animal Farm is a mockery of a free society and the needs for change. When the pendulum of power swings drastically in either direction "absolute power tends to corrupt." The animals traded the rule of Mr. Jones for the pigs whom they believed would treat them more fairly, but once the pigs gained total control they lost sight of their goal to make life on the farm better for everyone.

There are many important characters in George Orwell’s Animal Farm but the pig Squealer surpasses all of them in importance because Squealer is essentially the equivalent of a news reporter in the Animal Farm. Squealer spreads propaganda among the inhabitants of Animal Farm, whether it is the truth or a lie, but it benefits Napoleon afterwards since Squealer utilizes propaganda techniques in order to make the animals believe it. Most of the animals that are not pigs or dogs aren’t very intelligent and are the least literate. Animal Farm would then have an ostensibly good reputation in the outside world if the outside world believed it was becoming prosperous. However, it would have a bad reputation among the animals that are not the pigs or dogs on the farm since Napoleon and his dogs committed many grotesque acts within the farm that was unbeknownst to the outside world. These various horrible acts include killing animals because they appeared to be traitors and told they committed the animals did not commit at all in the Animal Farm’s version of the Great Purge. Squealer had foreshadowed the event by stating that there are traitors in the Animal Farm and are standing among the group with Squealer. The animals believed everything Squealer retorted to them although it was a lie and the mass killings occurred anyways.

The book Animal Farm, written by George Orwell is a story about animals living on a farm called Manor Farm. The animals were treated poorly throughout generations by their caretaker. However that was soon to change when a fairly old pig named Old Mayor describes to the animals about a dream he had the previous night. The dream was about how the animals can fix the problem of being treated wrongly by rebelling against their caretaker.

The audience is able to understand a complex message more easily through allegory and the use of simple language, allowing ordinary people to understand Orwell’s message. This allows the audience to understand the environment they are living in and the cruelty of a society where leaders have a need to keep down their labouring classes to gain control. Above all, that dictators use the ability of language and power to gain control in order to remain in power for the

The satire in George Orwell’s Animal Farm expresses the idea of self-government through the animals. The animals are being personified, having human characteristics. The animals choose that they want to run the farm by themselves, so they create a way of living called Animalism. There are two major ides of Animalism, one is that all animal are to be treated equally, and the other is no animals should gain human characteristics. These principles are the base and foundation of the Seven Commandments (what the animals follow). As soon as this new system is developed, they throw out all of the humans that run the farm. Even though the commandments say that all animals are supposed to be equal, the pigs begin to take control. The most important pigs are Napoleon and Snowball, who are in charge of the farm until Napoleon throws out Snowball from the farm. Through this satire, George Orwell shows how power corrupts by showing the pigs actions.

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegoric, political satire rich in manipulation of language. In fact, some believe it was written for the purpose of portraying the Russian Revolution of 1917 and many years following which concluded in a “more oppressive, totalitarian, and far more deadly” government than its predecessors. Each of Orwell’s characters is also believed to represent principal figures of that time. The story opens on Manor Farm, an English farm owned and operated by a Mr. Jones. Old Major, the prized pig of the farm, and eldest, fears that he will die soon and wants to leave behind a legacy by educating the other farm animals on how they are being misused. He calls a meeting