Satire In George Orwell's Animal Farm

In chapter 7 Napoleon began punishing and executing the animals who he believed to be traitors, by forcing them to confess to “crimes” that they committed. Through this, it is obvious that although the pigs goal is to keep humans out of animal farm, and make sure that the animals are safe, it is causing a sense of fear and terror in the animals. This also shows how the animals have no freedom of

Also, the pigs receive special privileges such as attaining more milk and apples than the other animals because of their intellectual abilities. When an animal objects to these privileges, the pigs make their argument followed by the line, “Surely you don’t want Jones back?”(52). Of course the pigs would use this form of propaganda on the animals because they can all agree that they do not want Farmer Jones back. Another way the pigs use propaganda is to create more power for Napoleon. For example, the song “Minimus” is composed for Napoleon and is just one example of the many “Napoleon-promoting” propaganda techniques.

There are pigs that are also controlled by Napoleon to enforce his rules and orders, enjoy luxuries that other animals don't have, and become more and more like humans. Squealer's characterizations is used to express the theme manipulation of language by how in the book he distorts the truth.

1. - The author of the book Animal Farm, George Orwell consistently uses satire to communicate problems and solutions among the Animals, with respect to the books similarities with The Russian Revolution. 2. - Throughout this PowerPoint our group will be explaining, “How satire was used as commentary on communism or socialism”.

Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory about farm animals that rebel against their human farmers seeking to find a society where they can all be free and equal. Unfortunately, once their society starts up, things take a turn. The pigs of the farm wind up

Napoleon and Squealer consistently emphasize ceremonies, traditions, and ranks to influence the animals to disregard their laborious lives and actually consider how their lives are meaningful and comfortable. The pigs want to hide their faults, and prevent the animals from solving the problem. This is the only way they can show the animals, that they really have something to give them and there is a benefit from working hard.

First, the inability to read or write automatically let the pig take advantage of the other animals. The animals were attempting to learn the alphabet however, most couldn't get passed the first letter. "Muriel, the goat, could read [better than] the dogs. . . Benjamin could read as well as any pig, but never exercised his faculty. . . Mollie refused to learn any bu the six letters [which] spelt her own name. . .None of he other animals [could get] further than A." (Orwell, 28) The few animals that did understand how to read and write was inferior to the pig's level of literacy and/or did not use what they knew to their own

The animals were also threatened by Squealer using fear tactics that, “[Mr] Jones would come back”. This manipulates and exploits the animals who do not want to be reverted to their former oppressed lives. The dogs, raised by Napoleon, also intimidate the animals. By using fear to control the animals, they are unable to object or protest against the pigs. This gradually gave the pigs more power and the animals less.

Instead of speaking up against Napoleon and the pigs, they convince themselves that Napoleon’s ideas are still better than the way things were when Mr. Jones was in charge. Since they greatly fear the thought of Mr. Jones coming back, the pigs decide to use this to their advantage. “Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop” (Orwell 56). Their ignorance at the beginning of Napoleon’s rule leads him to becoming even more powerful. Even when they have a feeling something is wrong, they excuse the pigs’ actions instead of speaking up about it, just like Napoleon and the other pigs

In conclusion, with the previously mentioned themes presented in the novel thus far, the pigs are clearly representing a powerful form of destruction toward the animals without having them realize such

In George Orwell’s satire of the Russian Revolution, Animal Farm, he creates a microcosm of Russia to be able to depict the events that occurred during the Russian Revolution of 1917 in an uncomplicated manner. Orwell utilizes the literary device, personification or anthropomorphism, to represent certain important figures involved in the spread of Soviet communism. For example, Napoleon is the equivalent of Stalin, Old Major is Lenin, and Snowball can be Trotsky. In addition, Orwell also uses symbolism to correspond certain aspects. For instance, the different barns represent countries involved in the Russian Revolution.

Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It is also an allegory of the negative side of communism. Finally, the book is also an allegory for tyranny in general. Orwell uses allegory almost continuously through the book to get across his point. The point being the failings of communism that first there is revolution, then the struggle for power, and finally dictatorship.

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.”

Orwell wrote “Animal Farm” as a form of satire to attack and poke fun at world politics, especially the rebellions in the Soviet Union. Additionally, Orwell used satire to bring light to what he saw as the fairy tale of Soviet socialism. Therefore, because Orwell was against the socialist system he wrote “Animal Farm” as a fairy tail story linking the animals with historical characters. For example, he represents Stalin as Napoleon and Trotsky as Snowball.

At first the reader is led to believe that the main villain is Mr Jones, the farmer who treated the animals like slaves and never gave them the fruits of their labor. After learning more about the characters and how they develop, you can see that the pigs become more and more like their enemies, the humans. This fact can be proven by quoting the last paragraph of the book: “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.” This paragraph highlights that the pigs became what they once hated because they oppressed the other animals and even sunk so low as to have parties which were only privy to pigs and humans.