Irony In Animal Farm

Soon the original commandments get condemned to a single one reading “ all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Napoleon commits to uniting with the human farmers against the working classes of both humans and animals, and even changes the name from Animal Farm back to Manor Farm. Looking in on the elites through the farmhouse window the animals can no longer tell the pigs from the humans.

Situational irony occurs when a story’s plot takes a 180 degree turn than what both the intended readers or audiences and the characters predict. Situational irony is also sometimes called as “Irony of Fate”.

The novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell expresses the idea of self-government through the animals. The animals play the role of humans. Because the animals decide that they want to run the farm by themselves, they make up a way of living called Animalism. The Seven Commandments (Animal Farm's Constitution) under which they live are based on these major principles of Animalism. As time passes, the Seven Commandments undergoes subtle changes as the pigs rewrite it to suit their own agenda. The Seven Commandments may be said to be the key to understanding Animal Farm.

“They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments” (Orwell 24). This passage from the book suggests that the pigs are completely in charge of Animal Farm, and they use their intelligence to create the Seven Commandments, and rule the farm This moment is the beginning of the pigs’ reign over Animal Farm. Although it may look like Orwell shows the pigs using their intelligence for the well-being and prosperity of Animal Farm, he is actually using techniques like simile, metaphor, and imagery, to portray that they are using their intelligence incorrectly.

Now that the Old Major isn't around, the animals have to plan for the rebellion themselves. “The work of teaching and organizing the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals.” George Orwell employs irony in writing this because there are two young boars who are “preeminent among the pigs,” so all animals are not equal. Among the animals there are some who are better than the others. After the rebellion the pigs lead the animals and tell them what to do and what not to do. After the animals successfully overthrow Mr.Jones, they change the name of the farm from “Manor Farm” to “Animal Farm.” The name of the farm is significant because it signifies that the farm belongs to the animals.

The 7 Commandments of Animalism are seen as the rules of the farm. Since the animals could not read or write, besides the pigs and Benjamin the goat, it was easy for Napoleon to change the 7 Commandments to benefit the pigs and himself. For example, “All animals are equal” was changed to, “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others,” (Document A). Some of the animals noticed something different about the Commandments but they never thought too much about it to know something was truly wrong. Since Napoleon used Animalism to his benefit, he persuaded the animals to do as they’re told because he knew the animals believed and supported

The Russian Revolution was led by a few leaders of the common people, promising better work conditions and a Communist government with equality for all. However, when the Communist party was established, so much power was given to the government, that, it quickly went corrupt and abused peoples’ rights far worse than the previous government. In George Orwell’s book, Animal Farm, the pigs promise the animals better lives than their current lives under Jones’s rule. However, mirroring the Russian Revolution, the pigs went corrupt almost immediately afterwards, changing previously declared rules, and killing other animals without reason. In the end, the pigs ended up as bad as man. In Animal Farm, George Orwell utilizes situational irony, displaying the pigs as corrupt leaders, to support Lord Acton’s quote: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

society. This book shows the sides of both a rising upper class, and a struggling lower class of animals. There is only one thing that kept the animals in line and that was Animalism or the seven commandments that preach about equality between animals. This helped greatly whenever food was low,war erupted, and of course dictatorship.

George Orwell’s novella, Animal Farm, is a fable about a herd of animals living on a farm together. Orwell uses humor and irony to support the topic of oppression among the farm animals. Throughout the novella, Orwell uses humor in situations that are actually much more serious and tragic than funny. In the beginning of the novella, the farm animals stage a rebellion against Mr. Jones, the farmer, and Mrs. Jones, his wife, and they chase them off the farm. The animals rebel against the farmer because they view him as a drunken, careless ruler.

This rule is changed by the organization creating the rules; the pigs. The change came from no other place than the pure selfishness and complete hypocrisy. Another example of a an changed commandment is “No animal shall kill any other animal”(25). In chapter 7, Napoleon has taken sole political control of the newly named Animal Farm, and frightens some animals to confessing horrible crimes of treason. “Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes...

In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals come up with seven commandments. These commandments should be for all of the animals, but eventually the pigs change some of them to what they want. This is to show people that they are dominant and to make what they do become correct. Since most of the pigs can read, they act like the new commandments are what have been there all along. Two examples of these new commandments are, no animal shall kill any other animal (without cause) and all animals are equal (but some animals are more equal than others). Both of these commandments change through the book because the animals change.

As the story progresses, the pigs, in particular, Napoleon, distort the commandments to suit their own selfish interests. An incident of this occurring is when Napoleon changes the commandment about drinking. Muriel, reading over the seven commandments to herself, notices that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong... 'No animal shall drink alcohol, to excess!' (Orwell 73).

Can pigs show a powerful position in society? Although this question may be strange, it has a substantial meaning in the novel Animal Farm. Written by George Orwell, Animal Farm is about a group of animals that rebel against the human race and have pigs take over society. Eventually, the pigs become the dominant animal in the farm and become just like humans. For example, the pigs start out by telling the animals their new society would become different and equal, but eventually, this just became a full circle. The pigs want more and more from the animals each day and lie to get what they want. Also, they are becoming just like the human species, specifically by carrying whips and even wearing human clothes. Throughout Animal Farm, there have

In Animal Farm, this passage describes one of the most important themes in the entire novel which acts as a “staple” to sum up all the events and reasonings. After mutilating the commandments at their whim, the pigs and Napoleon finally destroy one of the most important of the commandments. The original commandment states that “all animals are equal”, but Napoleon includes “but some are more equal than others.” This amendment towards the animal commandments relates to the theme of greater powers controlling the lower class. In this case the greater powers are the pigs and Napoleon while the lower class are the animals. The working-class of communistic is Orwell’s real life comparison to the novel; the fascists and Stalin are the ones which

Vladimir Lenin once emphasized that ” all members of the Russian Communist Party who are in the slightest degree suspicious or unreliable ... should be got rid of”. By these words Lenin banned the Russian Communist Party and introduced the one-party state, whereby Stalin easily managed to get rid of his rivals for the power of the Soviet Union.