preview

Modernism In Animal Farm

Satisfactory Essays

One of the most famous literary works that is written by George Orwell, Animal Farm, has made the reader curious with the issues that are in it. Written in late 1943 until the first quarter of 1944–which Modernism is the main literary movement in that era—when the war is still up in the air, it gives a lot of impacts to his work. A very strong political overtones cover the whole story; it is camouflaged by the emergence of animals figures. Implicitly, we can guess Orwell’s intent of writing this novella is to criticize and give his opinions about a particular idea (ideology). Besides, the interesting part of this novella is the emergence of two major figures that give a big impact to Animal Farm—the idealist Snowball and the dictator Napoleon—which …show more content…

Orwell describes Napoleon as a cruel dictator that exploit the power of existing animals in Animal Farm, while he, himself, does not do anything. He lives separately from the other animals—in a luxury place—while other animals share the farm together without any bed. He also has his own soldier, which is the nine dogs, to control the animals’ work. He breaks the rules about “All animals are equal”; and change it to “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal”. It seems like he messed up Old Major’s idea about the equality of animal in Animal Farm. Stalin in the same position, he is an ambitious man and ruthless in the pursuit of power. Like Napoleon, Stalin also has his own secret police force which is named the NKVD. Stalin’s police force assassinates Stalin's rival, Trotsky, like Napoleon’s dogs forcibly repel Snowball. Actually, the dictator Stalin gets a big influence of German Karl Marx—as a cause of modernist temper; However he ruins the ideas. Cited from Shmoop Napoleon (A Pig) Character Analysis, it says “Stalin also messed up Karl Marx's ideas”. Like Napoleon does for Old Major’s idea, Stalin, himself, also is changing the rules—changing the ideas of Marx—for his own personal gain. Looking at the explanation, we can conclude that both Napoleon and Stalin share the same cruelty in terms of their leadership. In conclusion Orwell tries to represent two main character

Get Access