Revolutions Everywhere!: Animal Farm by George Orwell

The cunning dictator Joseph Stalin once said “I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.” Revolution can be inevitable in certain situations and a very powerful motivation for the wrong reasons. George Orwell depicts revolution in Animal Farm through use of character portrayal, symbolism and a steady process and progression.

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

Elie Wiesel in Night and Snowball from Animal Farm are very similar characters because they were victimized by tyrants and used as scapegoats, but they are also unique and individual characters because Elie knew he was being taken advantage of and Snowball did not. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell, and it is about a farm of animals that take over the farm. Napoleon, a large pig, slowly takes away food and supplies from the other animals until he starts walking on two feet and becomes a “human.” Because of him Snowball is expelled from the farm and acts as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong on the farm. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel, and in it Elie tells the story of he was taken from his home and put into a concentration camp under the control of Adolf Hitler.

Many revolutions have occurred throughout history. However, people have always reverted back to how they were before. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the characters, setting, and conflict support the theme: revolutions are pointless because everything will always return to the status quo.

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 the Haitian Revolution the end result was good. The Haitians revolted against their masters in 1791 and were independent and master free by 1804. They had fought long and hard and finally got their independence and are still a free country to this day. In the book Animal Farm, the story does not have such a happy ending. The animals in Animal Farm revolt against their human owners and lead a successful revolution. But they assign the wrong leaders. The pigs in the book are assigned as leaders of the farm and nobody really questions them. The pigs begin to change the rules and take all of the good food for themselves. The pigs have begun to enforce themselves with a band of vicious dogs that kill any animal that is considered to be a traitor. The animals are working harder and for less than they did with the original farmers. The pigs have become corrupt and are practically just as bad, if not worse than, the farmers were. The pigs made the animals back into slaves and the animals didn’t even notice it

In Animal by George Orwell unrest lies among the animals of Manor Farm. An uprising is sparked by an elder pig, Old Major and carried out by the other animals after he is gone. This uprising follows the beginning patterns of Brinton’s anatomy of a Revolution but seems to freeze before it can complete the entire cycle. The Animal Farm revolution starts with an old order and crisis, followed by dissatisfaction of the near elites, and a moderate regime is established and tends to stay in power while this regime suppresses the reign of terror, so a Thermidorian reaction never can take place.

For centuries, revolutions have defined the progression of humanity. Daniel Berrigan reflects, “A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.” By this, Berrigan means that although groups strive for revolution, the goal is often not obtained. Animal Farm, by George Orwell, embodies this quote through the farm’s failure to eliminate characteristically human foibles, continuous oppression of the animals, and alterations of the seven commandments which characterize the initial revolution.

In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm was based on a political allegory based on Orwell’s experience in the Revolution. The characters in the novel were based on those whom Orwell knew. Throughout the book, my understandings of the three characters Boxer, Mollie and Napoleon were of different personalities. There were a lot of conflicts both internal and external and the author used elements of satire to blend politics and art. To me the book was giving a fair idea of how the powerful and intelligent life treated the low and unintelligent ones. The setting of Animal Farm was in England and the different animals that were used to symbolize persons from the Spanish Civil War in the book were mainly pigs, horses and dogs etc. The novel basically tells the story of a group of animals who were ruled by pigs.

Animal Farm has shown us what happens when a country (farm in this case) moves towards a more socialistic government. The revolution was meant to bring equality to all the animals on the farm. That was the case at first through the efforts of Snowball. As time went on though Napoleon took over and gave the ruling class (pigs) more rights than the working class (rest of the animals). This can be seen by looking at the past 10 years of the United States History. In the past 10 years we’ve have gone through/ started 3 different political associations. Many changes have taken place other this time. We have gone through many political, inequality, and racial issues in that time, which relates to Animal Farm.

Cyris Filoteo (Greenan’s History Class) M3 2/21/16 Revolutions Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable (John F. Kennedy). The Animal Farm is a book that represents an organization developed by animals, originally started by Old Major. In this well written novel, (in my opinion) shows relations to revolutionary standards. My group chose to do the Cuban Revolution, with the novel I guess reinstating, or in other words remaking a type of revolution, symbolizes many things in the Cuban Revolution. With the quote I chose to start this essay off with, I feel that our people and even characters in The Animal Farm have relation to the meaning behind this quote.

Revolutions are successful if they have the right leader to lead the people and the leader also has to be considerate about the citizens. Animal Farm’s example of a revolution is very much alike with the Russian Revolution in 1917. They are alike because Napoleon removed Snowball that can become a problem to his ruling and

A perfect society. Something we long and hope for, and work towards to achieve for our future. We picture this society in many different ways, including things like equality, no poverty, and everyone being taken care of among many things. However, we have not become this perfect society yet. This makes you start to wonder, what is preventing this perfect society that we all share a vision of? The perfect society would contain things like equality, happiness, and unity. However, these things are counteracted by greediness, other’s misery, and the fight for power.

One of the main themes in Animal Farm is Revolution and Corruption. Basically the story explains and shares the growth of anger and war and power. Several characters die and leave, while some thrive with power. In the book we learn that power is consuming and once given the idea of rebellion becomes a real thing and it destroys almost everything around you.

The book Animal Farm is a mix of the Revolutionary War and Old McDonald had a Farm. Where the pig dose not say oink, but speaks English. The book is about a farm of animals who think they have the rights to be free, so they start a rebellion against their human owners. Two particularly zealous pigs named Snowball and Napoleon began leading the rebellion. They chased their owners out of the farm. After this Snowball developed laws to govern the new society such as, four legs good, to legs bad, to avoid all thing that make animals like humans, and the 7 commandments. In the following year, Snowball came up with the idea to build a windmill. Napoleon was against it and wanted control of the farm, and chased Snowball out with a pack of dogs. Throughout the rest of the book he was the dictator and drove the farm into the ground by; making the pigs act like humans, failing to build the wind mill, made the animals feel like slaves, and disobeying all the laws set in the beginning. This essay will discuss how the leaders of the Animal Farm drove it to destruction by exposing the wrong doing of the leaders, the blind trust given by the followers, and their contributions to the loss of freedom.