Lack Of Empathy In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Societies are built on a hierarchy. There is a leader, an upper class, a middle class, and a lower class. This representation of human society is built by our natural need for a leader no matter how tyrannical. George Orwell firmly exposes and attacks this flaw of human nature in his allegorical novel, Animal Farm. In Animal Farm Orwell displays situations mirroring that of the Russian Revolution, and how it failed to produce the utopia that was promised out of the revolution. George Orwell, before writing the novel, was disillusioned by the Communist revolution, a revolution that promised to provide all its people with a government that owned everything, but in turn was owned by the people. Orwell quickly concluded that all revolutions will fail, as the Russian Revolution did, because those who attain power are then corrupted by it. In this view of revolutionary efforts Orwell presents his views on human nature as a whole, that humans are unable to maintain an utopia, unable to abstain for consuming power, and that humans will subjugate and oppress one another if given the power to do so.

As the years elapsed the animals get the same about Napoleon. Benjamin was the only animal besides the pigs that could read. Clover had Alzheimer's. Moses secretly was hiding in the barn and Squealer was the only one that knew he was there. Benjamin and Clover had four miniature donkeys together.

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

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.

Thrashing her commands like paper airplanes and snatching the wand from the fairy godmother to wish the worst for Cinderella, the evil stepmother has the attitude of your stereotypical teenager, but holds the power to control like a mother. Her selfish desires to want her real daughter to marry into the throne and make certain Cinderella’s dreams to find her true love are shattered, ruled over her to make her one of Disney’s most egotistical characters ever created. Likewise, the pig Squealer from Animal Farm possessed several similar characteristics as the evil stepmother such as excessive selfishness and wanting the best only for his “real” family. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Squealer demonstrated self-preservation in the form of selfishness

Squealer explains, “The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had be bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not painted the old name out… Then went into further graphic detail of boxer’s deathbed and admirable care Napoleon paid without a thought as to the cost. animals sorrow that they felt for their comrades death was tempered by the thought that at least he died happy” (Orwell 86).

People used to live in oppression and still do till this day. In Syria, people live in oppression. They have to follow rules and the people there are forbidden to do many things. A book that shows what people living in oppression is really like is Animal Farm. One theme in the book is, “People’s ignorance, or their not being educated, contributes to their being oppressed by other.” People are oppressed by others because they are either uneducated or they just ignore the issues in their society/country and will not do anything about the situation.

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.

Among manipulations and abusing of his powers, Napoleon tells lies to deceive the animals and to favor his reputation as the leader. One of the lies told was, “The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon’s own creation,”(43). The truth was the plans belonged to Snowball, but Napoleon is taking credit to make him look better than Snowball. Another lie told was when the destruction of the windmill was blamed on Snowball(52). The night prior had been a storm with strong winds. The plans to build the windmill were not correctly built, therefore the windmill was not durable and could have easily been demolished by the storm. Napoleon lied about Snowball to make him appear as the enemy. In reality, Snowball would’ve been a better leader than Napoleon; he

Animal Farm: Societal Concerns Vs. Individual Concerns In any given society, there is always a difference between the concerns of an individual and society. In most cases, an individual’s concern is selfish and only directed towards themselves, despite the effects it may have on people around them.

During the early 1900’s wars and revolutions were raging all around the world. George Orwell in Animal Farm expresses the political tendencies of those who have and those who lack education through characters such as Squealer, Napoleon, Muriel, and Benjamin. In Animal Farm, the message George Orwell sends to his audience is that there is power in obtaining an education that saves one from being bamboozled. The first way Orwell expresses the importance of education is through the pigs, who were the most educated animals on the farm. Within “three months” the pigs had “taught themselves to read and write,” which leads to them having the most power (Orwell 23).

“‘No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.’” (Orwell 7). In the novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, animals were being overworked, mistreated, and neglected by a farmer named Mr. Jones, who only made the situation worse as he became an alcoholic.

The seven commandments in Animal Farm are initially made to ensure that all animals are equal and have no connection to humans at all. However, over time Napoleon through his assistant Squealer manipulate the seven commandments, taking advantage of the fact of that most animals are Illiterates. The pigs distort the commandments to suit their own selfish interests, like when Napoleon changes the commandment about drinking. Changing it from ‘No animal shall drink alcohol,’ to ‘No animal shall drink alcohol to excess,’ which oppresses the other animals, as the subtle changes to the commandments allow the pigs to manipulate and control the other animals without any protest, as the new laws allow the pigs to do whatever they want. The pigs’ superior intelligence and education allow them to bring the other animals into submission through the use of propaganda and revisionism of the seven commandants. However in Elysium, security robots made by the company Armadyne, can be seen as the main symbol of oppression in the film. The security robots are made to keep the peace however use unnecessary force to subdue people. Security robots are programmed to maintain the earth-bound populace and stopping them from reaching Elysium. Security robots are equipped with batons and advance weaponry and a variety of combat skills. The Mise en scene reveals that

Where there is good, there is evil. This simply implies that whatever you choose to do there is a purpose, either good or bad, even if unintentional. Everything in life has choice, even down to what you choose to say to others. Words are more powerful than we could imagine. They can be used for greeting one another, complimenting one another, but the meaning behind words can be manipulated. In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, he shows the worst of manipulation in a setting of war. He demonstrates that words are just as powerful as weapons. Not only is it an outstanding novel, but it warns us what words under propaganda can do, from “Glittering” to the “Plain Folks”, and even evoking fear. Words allow the intelligent pigs to play the animals like puppets, and return them to slavery.