Quotes From 'Animal Farm'

To add on, the boy’s only depend on violence as their answer to survival, which causes them to turn into ruthless savages. These boy’s have no clue as to when they’ll be rescued or if anyone knows they’ve gone missing, so survival skills are crucially vital while being stranded. There’s so many options to choose from in order to survive, but their only process of thought is to use the skills of violence in order to survive. In the novel it states, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood,” (Golding 96). On the island, pigs are one of their main sources of food and most of the boys spent their day hunting them down and killing them. It started to become ridiculous when violence was their only thought. This is evident when the text states,

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.

George Santayana’s quote from the novel “The Life of Reason, volume 1” explains about history and human nature. If you do not learn from your mistakes from the past, you will make the same mistakes again. “Progress, far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness.’’ This means in regards to history that progress does not depend on change but more on the ability to retain from past experience. “When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.” Also, “In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence.” This two quotes explains the human nature that if you don’t learn from your past mistakes, you will be like savages or live forever

There's a famous quote by George Santayana that states “Those who cannot remember the past are commanded to repeat it” (The life of Reason, 1905) Do you believe that Santayana had a point by saying such as thing ? There’s a book called “The Crucible” which centers around the Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1690’s. There were signs of something that started off small but led to something bigger. Americans still see those signs today, but we chose to not learn from what happened in the past. The Crucible is a resource everyone could learn something from that could help us modern Americans.

Have you ever heard the saying “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” and “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.”? These quotes come from George Santayana and George Bernard Shaw, these men tell how it’s common for people to repeat past mistakes. However, if people learn to look back and understand history, it’s harder to replicate disastrous actions. History is full of wars and brutish words, yet the source of all these problems come from a single issue: power. Leaders seek power in every crevice they can find. In the book, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, Napoleon is a cruel dictator who successfully takes over a farm after running off its competitors. Major, an old pig, told the farm of a new way of living. However, after he died, Napoleon steadily took over the farm. Therefore, taking the time to understand history’s past and mistakes can be an effective weapon against repeating the same mistakes. Failure to learn outcomes in a repetition of history, as Napoleon proves, as shown in today’s life, learning from history helps resolve futures issues, and only suffering comes from problematic actions of the past.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. These often quoted words were spoken by philosopher George Santayana in 1863 to remind those of the present not to dismiss the past it contains lessons that should not be forgot. In order to learn from the past though it must be researched; however, this research often relies on first hand accounts written by people who lived during that period in order to gain a glimpse into life. Yet, these accounts must be observed within the context in which they were recorded. Often, these documents were recorded by missionaries focused on converting the native population to Christianity and so were bias towards their cause. Take, for example, the accounts of Jesuit Jean de Brébeuf

This is first shown when the fourth commandment is changed. The other farm animals find out that they changed the fourth commandment. There was a ruckus about the commandment and the pigs used fear to make the animals bend the rule a little bit. Than in chapter six the animals got Together and one of the pigs, Squealer said, “surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"4 All the animals felt threatened and no one wanted the drunken Mr. Jones to come back to the farm. On the other hand the Bolsheviks used fear to get what they

*If we ignore the past of what people had done, we would make the same mistakes what people in the past has done, if we did not ignore the past and learn everything that had happened in the past we would learn the same mistakes and

These commandments were to “form an unalterable law” (pg.17) but as the pigs quickly began to realise that their mental capabilities outshone the other animals, their self entitled supremacy rose with it. Their constant desire for power then followed and they believed that their egotistical ideals were not something to be reckoned with, therefore manipulating the commandments to their own liking. This was exemplified when the commandments are gradually undermined by the pigs to; “no animal must sleep in a bed” to “no animal must sleep in a bed with sheets” (pg.17,50), and “no animal shall kill any other animal” to “no animal shall kill any other animal without cause” (pg.17, 66)( Dr Jennifer Minter, English Works, 2016). The pigs act as if they are abiding by the commandments to gain the trust from the mindless animals using strategical manipulation strategies, then later reveal their true intentions in a time and way that no animal is cunning enough to challenge them, making them all powerless to protesting against the supremacy. A representation of this occurs by all the original commandments being erased and replaced with the new guiding principle “all animals are equal but some are more equal than others” (pg.

Throughout the novel, the seven commandments written by the pigs for all farm animals were adjusted to accommodate to the pig’s selfishness. Propaganda was then used extensively to cover up acts of greediness committed by the pigs.

Animal Farm by George Orwell can directly relate to George Santayana's quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This quote means we are prone to repeat ourselves if we cannot remember our mistakes from the past and learn from them; and by the time we notice a repetition in history, it is already too late. The animals in Animal Farm are not able to tell if their situation is better or worse than Jones's time because they cannot remember their life in the past. "There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones’s day. On Sunday mornings Squealer, holding down a long strip of paper with his trotter, would read out to them lists of figures proving

George Santayana once said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

This was the final cut on the Seven Commandments, the most significant example of the pigs’ abuse of wording. This statement gives the word “equal” a more relative than absolute meaning, implying that there are different levels of equal (which is an oxymoron), or to put it indirectly, “All animals are not equal”. This is directed at the fabricated line of division between the pigs and the animals. The pigs definitely consider them that “some”, while the rest are the “all”. The Rebellion was for the social good of the animal society. But what was with the best of intention, turned into something conceivably worse than the previous oppressive state. This quote, which is a revision of the original Commandments, was formerly a symbol of good intent,

The seven commandments are a list of rules painted on the side of the barn, which state the laws for the animals about what they can and can’t do. The first commandment to change in the story is the 7th commandment which states that all animals are equal. This commandment changes because some animals are valued over others, and other animals receive food, and others are left to starve. For example the pigs would take the milk and apples for themselves and just tell the other animals that the pigs needed the food in order to keep the pigs in good health because they were the smartest, and would be able to prevent Jones from coming back. “Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones

The 7 commandments made by the pigs symbolizes the power and manipulation the pigs have over the other animals. The use of the commandments represent how words can manipulate others and lead to an abuse of power. For example, at the end of chapter 3 Squealer manages to convince the rest of the animals that the pigs needed the apples and milk they had taken to preserve health. In addition, Squealer tells the animals that the pigs don’t even like their food and only eat for the good of the farm. Then, he uses Jones’ return to justify their extra meals and says “Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," This ended the argument and convinced the animals that the pigs needed to eat the main crop of apples. This breaks the farm’s commandment concerning animal equality however, the pigs trick the animals into believing everything is right through fear mongering.