Manipulation In Animal Farm By George Orwell

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

On Animal Farm all animals are equal and all try to pull their weight, but some animals are more equal than others. And many other animals don’t work and some work more than others. Boxer is a hard working horse who is kind but he is very persuaded with the ideas of Napoleon. The sheep of Animal Farm are stupid and blind in following the pigs and just do what the pigs ask them to do. Napoleon develops a secret police out of nine puppies he stole and those nine puppies were taught in the way of Napoleon, who wants the dogs to be loyal and enforce his ideas. All of these animals are being manipulated by Napoleon and making choices so they can help others or help themselves.

Abuse of power is demonstrated in many areas of Orwell’s novel and it clearly indicates that Orwell is not a Marxist. This is shown through manipulating all the animals, altering the commandments, and it is distinctly visible when almost all the animals fear the pigs. As days go on, there is always something different about the farm yet no one ever says a word, “Curiously enough, Clover had not remembered that the fourth commandment mentioned sheets; but as it was there on the wall, it must have done so,” Orwell, pg.79. Some animals recognize the changes and adjustments but because of the deficiency in education they all have, it becomes difficult for anyone to say anything. Clover, the motherly mare, notices that the pigs are sleeping upon beds which according to her were breaking one of the commandments. Although she knows this is a violation of the rules, she stays quiet and silently questions all the actions the pigs continue to take. This is an internal conflict that Clover is experiencing who mentally observes all the manipulating and controlling the pigs do with all the farm animals. She realizes this is all wrong but does not want to get involved. The pigs, specifically Napoleon, change the commandments knowing that not all the animals get fully educated enough to comprehend what each means and in result he, therefore, gets to manipulate the animals into doing anything he wants. The pigs see that all the animals will accept any changes made without arguing because in

Animal Farm, a fiction novella by George Orwell, displays a political satire reflecting the problems and ironies in the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. Animal Farm follows the animals of Manor Farm, who revolt and take over the farm from their cruel owner. Eventually, the pigs (particularly Napoleon) become the leaders of the farm plummeting the originally republic rulership into a dictatorship. The corruption of power between the pigs leads to the ultimate suffering of the rest of the farm animals. At the end of the book, the farm animals are looking into a window where the pigs and humans are having a meeting and realize, “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 141). This scene conveys to the readers that not only have the pigs abused their power, but the animals only realized once it was too late. The pigs exploit the animals several times throughout the story, most apparently through the alterations of the original rules set in place by the pigs themselves. The repetition of lying to the remaining animals shows the pigs’ fraudulence in their

The stories display the characteristics of a tyrannical governments through its underlying themes. Both stories show the implications of media manipulation as being instrumental to the abuse of power. Just before the announced attack on the Parliament Building in V for Vendetta, Adam Sutler releases to the public, “Our enemy is an insidious one, seeking to divide us and destroy the very foundation of our great nation.”(McTeigue). With his hopes to maintain his status and position, he attempts to turn the population against V using lies, although this does not succeed. This method does succeed in Animal Farm, and the animals believe all the fake media that is posed to them through Napoleon and Squealer. Once the people believe all that is fed to them, governments use this as an opportunity to corrupt the ideals

Squealer uses fear in his speech to convince the animals that the pigs absolutely need the milk and apples, then leading to the animals privileges and freedom to be taken away. The animals become blinded about what is actually happening on the farm. On the farm that the animals believe is a perfect utopia, where everything is equally shared and everyone is honest milk goes missing and the apples are redistributed to the pigs. Squealer then states that, “It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in out duty?

“The mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs’ mash” (Orwell 35). The milk and apples of the farm had been mysteriously disappearing, but it turns out that the pigs had been smuggling them in all along. “‘We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink milk and eat those apples’” (Orwell 36). It is implied in Squealer’s quote that the pigs’ stealing of the milk and apples can be justified, because it is for the well-being of the animals. This is evidence of the pigs’ incorrect use of intelligence leading to corruption. In addition to this, the pigs’ brainwashing of the animals is evident in the character Boxer.

For example, Squealer’s manipulation tactics allow him to convince the other animals to keep the milk and apples for the pigs. In addition, Squealer alters the words of the seven commandments to allow him and the other pigs to live in a better living environment such as the

The animals you can tell, are easily manipulated by the “intelligent” animals, namely the pigs. This is shown when the pigs trick the other animals into thinking that they deserve the milk, apples, and food because they need it.This is quite a reflection of how Mr. Jones used to run his farm and take the objects, but the animals don’t see it because they believe the pigs when they Squealer says, “‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health’”(23). Significantly proving that the animals are manipulated easily. This is important because the pigs know this and use it to their advantage, becoming like the leadership that they had rebelled against. Because of this, I do not think they will continue to run the farm in later chapter because the animals will come to a realization that they are similar and will rebel again, breaking the rule of the two legged enemy.

The definition of manipulation is the act of controlling someone in a skillful or clever manner. In the story of Animal Farm written by George Orwell, he successfully promotes manipulative behaviour through many of the characters. George Orwell strategically combines fiction with political satire which creates humorous criticism. He allows the reader to understand the mental and physical changes a person could go through living under totalitarian power. This controlling behaviour causes people to grow fearful and very cautious because of the constant worry for their safety. In the story of Animal Farm, the persuasive characters use their intelligence to project a negative quality of a person in order for them to obtain their dictatorship,

The easy manipulation of human nature is illustrated in Animal Farm. Orwell presents ideas about manipulation through Napoleon’s method of gaining power. One of the ways that Napoleon controlled all the animals was by fear. In chapter 5, Squealer reassures the animals that whatever Napoleon is doing is for their benefit and that Snowball was nothing but a criminal. Squealer invented false information to suggest that Snowball was an enemy of the revolution. For instance, he said, “Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal. And Snowball’s part in the The Battle of Cowshed was much exaggerated.” He instilled fear into the minds of the animals, describing Snowball as a troublemaker who was out to destroy the farm. And another

Often times in a communist society, a leader’s use of language can lead to abuse of power. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the farm leaders, the pigs, use unknown language, invoke scare tactics, and create specific laws, thereby enabling them to control other animals, to suit their greedy desires, and to perform actions outside their realm of power. Because of the pigs’ use of broad language, implementation of scare tactics, and creation and manipulation of laws, they are able to get away with avoiding laws and convincing other animals into believing untrue stories and lies that are beneficial to the pigs.

Throughout the story, you see the way that the pig, Squealer, gives information to the “lowly” animals. He tells them what the leading pig, Napoleon, wants them to know, but he tells it in a way that it seems they are benefitting. Squealer had a way of persuading the other animals to listen to him, through his actions and manipulation. “The best known among them was a small, fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, which was somehow very persuasive. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black to white.”

Animal farm by George Orwell introduces real life problems using animals on a farm. The narrator focuses on leaders. This novel talks about a group of animals that overrule a farm owned by a man named Mr .Jones, but the animals face many corrupt rules, freedom rights, enemies, and arguments between one another. The farm becomes overruled by a pig named Napoleon, and the animals are afraid to go against him. Napoleon soon acts like Mr.Jones and the animals freedom is getting taken away from their hands. The novel's main message was to believe those are seeking the truth- doubt those who find it. The novel relates to the theme because between all of the animals, their was many that were not being true to each other and the main character of the story was trying to lure the animals in a plan once he found out he could takeover the farm, just like how it was in the beginning when Mr. Jones owned the farm.

One time, my old teacher, Mrs. Schultz, took advantage of the power she had as a teacher, to the point of corruption where I had to switch schools. It started, and finished, in 3rd grade. This is the same year that I’d found out I had tourette’s, and she, was also informed of this, as well as how she informed of my extreme ADHD. She’d constantly move me to the front of the room in order to just embarrass me, she constantly would clap in my face rather than just shaking my arm gently, or something of the like, when I got spaced out, and all around made my life horrible; she also is the reason that I had to completely, not even just switch schools, but switch the place that I lived as well (in order to be as far away from her as possible.) The story “Animal Farm”, by George Orwell, is about a, well, animal farm, where the animals are sick and tired of being underfed, and mistreated. This being said, they decide to rise up and rebel against their negligent owner, Mr. Jones. They waited a while before doing this, but they finally act upon the situation at, “The Battle of the Cowshed”, this is where they overtake the farm, yet, after the battle, everything begins to seem suspicious to the animals, and it proceeds to go downhill from there, such as corruption within the pigs, the leaders of the farm, as well as constant changing of the commandments to the point of where it was a simple sentence that gave themselves more power than the rest of the animals in a whole. In the story,