Raw By Scott Monk Essay

Orwell shows the difference in those with absolute control and those without the ability to express themselves by describing how “the pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge, it was natural that they should assume the leadership”(35). By including this quote within the making of the new farm, Orwell expresses how the pigs took advantage of their authorial positions so they could force the others to work, while they dominated Animal Farm with their own rules. The pigs’ power allowed them to have freedom to do anything they wanted, but caused the other animals to be restricted further in their lives, work, and individual rights. This resulted in the exploitation of the other animals, forcing them to have lose any hopes of having an equal society. Still, the other animals did not protest, and instead believed the pigs should be in power because of their intelligence. Their actions lead to the oppressive, dictatorial society shown as Animal Farm progresses. Soon, the inequity between the pigs and other animals develops to a point where “all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs. A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism”

The novel ‘Animal Farm’ created by George Orwell heavily expresses the ideals of a prolonged cruel or unjust treatment and the exercise of authority. The exponential ignorance of the farm animals towards the actions and ideas of the pigs (Napoleon, Squealer and Snowball) prove the incentive that it is easier to conform to the ideals/ways of the ‘New England’, than to rebel, as well as through the exposure to propaganda and the distortion of reality. This therefore leaving them docile, numb, and oppressed.

Orwell further develops this lack of egalitarianism ad the classes by eliminating “all debates on the farm, and demanding that the animals sing the farm anthem, Beasts of England, every Sunday morning” (Orwell 59). The fact that the animals on the farm are all required to follow a set of code of conduct without any room for deliberation advances the concept of an oppressive government and complete disregard for the class system.

In Animal Farm, George Orwell uses satirical allegory throughout his novel to present the pessimistic view of human nature. The animal fable is used to demonstrate the issues of unfair treatment, exploitation and inequality in society. It is evident that this irony is particularly evident in the ending of both novels (Gulbin 88). The satirist irony is directed on the events of the Russian Revolution and on the totalitarian regime. Orwell uses political reason with creative reason to show his negative belief that people only change the dictators though revolutions but the systems stay the same. It is only a dream that people can gain a classless society through revolutions. Orwell believes that everyone wants equality, yet it is in one's nature as human beings to obtain power.

An author often writes a novel as a warning to mankind. In Animal Farm, George Orwell creates a world of animals that allegorically represent man. The intelligent pigs take advantage of the uneducated lower animals and take control of the farm. By showing the steady increase of the pigs' intellectual exploitation of the lower animals, Orwell warns the reader of the importance of an education.

“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.

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a satirical allegory through which he presents his cynical view of human nature. He uses the animal fable effectively to expose the issues of injustice, exploitation and inequality in human society.

Animal farm is a renowned, allegorical novella written by George Orwell in 1945, which can be interpreted to have a hidden political meaning behind it referring to the Russian Revolution. Throughout this novella, the author purposely positions the audience to make judgements based on sensible, moral perception to show that Orwell effectively revealed how the pigs exploited a vast majority of propaganda techniques to deceptively manipulate the values, attitudes and beliefs of the other animals, with full intention of complete social control. This was exposed to the reader when the three main values of ‘Animalism’, as outlined in Old Major's speech, which consists of freedom, unity and equality, are abused for the pigs own advantage. This task

The sub theme of power corrupting people is very eminent in animal farm. The leaders on the farm - the pigs, were the brains of the farm. The animals let the pigs lead the farm, thereby placing them into a position of power. This power corrupted them as they became more and more greedy and their ideology became more and more corrupted. Also, the pig’s transgressions of the rules of animalism worsen as they grow in power.

Both conformity and nonconformity can cause positive and negative repercussions. What we’ll see is that nonconformity usually produces positive

Orwell uses his exigence to exemplify his moral, supported by rhetoric. Orwell’s exigence of Totalitarianism relates to the moral of power will corrupt. The animals complain

People in our community use rule and order to keep things at a calm or others use it to deceive and shape our understanding. Orwell is seen depicting this throughout animal farm. The animals create new commandments and traditions; Snowball was seen writing these commandments on the wall where one stated “whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.” Orwell foreshadows this through the use of irony, which also relates to the Russian revolution. But these rules turn out to be not so much rules as easily changed suggestions, the pigs later on begin to walk on two legs, becoming more like humans. A commandment later added “four legs good, two legs better,” Snowballs use of the superlative adjectives ‘good’ and ‘better’ creates a didactic message to the animals which preserves order and rules that are used to deceive and abuse. By using these devices Orwell has been able to make the theme of Rule and order still relevant in classic literature, reflecting on our society and human

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.

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, farm animals drive out their farmer and live in an environment where all animals are equal. However, the pigs, the smartest animals on the farm, end up taking over the farm and controlling all the animals. They trick the animals into believing they are doing everything for the benefit of the farm, when in reality they are doing it for themselves. The famous quote mentioned in this novel not only explains a scene in the book; it also shows the Orwell’s true purpose for writing the story: his hatred towards communism and Stalin’s rule. An author shows his or her purpose through the text’s hidden meanings, the structure of the text, the sequence of events, and the diction of the text.

At the beginning of the novel, the first commandment started by saying that anything that walked on two legs is automatically identified as an enemy, but it slowly changed where the pigs would walk on their hind legs are were expected to be treated as superior. “It was a pig walking on his hind legs” (Orwell 121). The pigs, who were the ones who created the seven commandments in the first place, changed the commandments to represent the theme of superiority by doing something they knew no one else on the farm would know other than themselves. Before the pigs completely changed the first commandment to represent their superiority, you could see Orwell develop the pigs slowly becoming more superior, first starting with setting the pigs up as the power on the farm. “It had come to be accepted that the pigs…should decide all questions of farm policy” (Orwell 53). While representing the