Similarities Between Animal Farm And 1984 By George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell which is an allegory of the Russian Revolution and the film adaptation of George Orwell’s novel 1984, which is set in a futuristic dystopian society, directed by Michael Radford uses Symbolism, foreshadowing and irony to convey the central ideas of power, politics, control, fear and they both also portray the dangers of totalitarianism. 1984 follows one main character (Winston) which shows how the society is being controlled whereas Animal Farm does not follow one character specifically. Though there are differences, Animal Farm and 1984 use the language techniques of symbolism, foreshadowing and irony in very similar ways.

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.

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.

Based on the novel, “1984” written by George Orwell, in some ways our society is similar to “1984’s” society. The novel was about a society in which the government had complete control of its citizen’s lives. Society became a puppet of the government and was incapable of unorthodox thinking. Anything against their rules would result in severe punishment. If an individual was overly disobedient, the punishment could result in exile.

Social institutions, economics, political, these all play roles in the world that Winston lives in and our modern world. Economical issues of not getting paid, having limited resources or getting paid and having all the food we want. Social institution, the government controlling the way we live and how we live with loved ones or strangers. Lastly, political the inner party taking all control by spying or using propaganda. The similarities and differences of “ 1984” and our society.

George was a happy king who loved his Black Paradise village. The community saw him as an anxious, alert angel. Once, he had even saved a tricky banana that was stuck in a toilet.

Hopelessness is a very strong quality present in 1984 and Animal Farm both by George Orwell. Animal Farm is a very literal allegory to the Russian revolution and warns about the dangers of a communist society. It reflects that hope can quickly be lost and people or animals can quickly become what they once fought to be free and independent from. 1984 follows a man named Winston who comes to rebel against his society but in the end is shown how futile his efforts to break away truly are. In each novel literary devices are used to present hopelessness, which is a common theme. With his purposeful and blunt use of irony, tone, and anaphora, Orwell creates an all too realistic dystopian civilization where vivid feelings of hopelessness thrive.

Control, Isolation, Rebellion In 1847, Mr. Karl Marx developed Marxism (or Communism). He dreamt of everyone working to his or her ability and goods and services would be shared among every person. However, that dream would not come to being. In 1917, led by the Bolsheviks, the workers of Russia revolted, and in 1926, the leader of the Bolsheviks, Mr. Nikolai Lenin, died.

In his stories Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm, George Orwell referenced the use of propaganda, as well as its consequences. If one were to read those stories, the overall message that one would understand from them is this: propaganda can be dangerous. People use it to brainwash other people, to create paranoia, and to create prejudice. They use people’s fear or confusion to manipulate their thoughts. This can primarily be seen in use during war, for religious beliefs, and in politics.

Totalitarian governments strive for power and total control over their people. In George Orwell’s dystopian novels, Animal Farm and 1984, the governments in each novel are very manipulative and depressing. In Animal Farm a rebellion sparked a change in leadership over the animals. Napoleon, the ruler, doesn’t actually turn the farm around after he becomes the leader. In 1984 Winston goes against the ways of the party. With Big Brother watching over all Winston has a hard time trying to conceal his feeling towards the party. In both dystopian settings, hopelessness stands out because of Orwell’s use of irony, tone, and anaphora.

While George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm notably differ in genre, setting, and tone, both novels share a deeper allegorical message: the elevated minority will use its power to shortchange the common majority. This message is easily revealed through a brief study of the sociopolitical tenets of Marxism, a theory which asserts that the development of human society is characterized by a universal class conflict. A 19th century German philosopher and author of the groundbreaking Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx believed that almost all of a nation’s social problems and societal deficiencies could be attributed to the ignorance of the oppressed majority (in Marxist terms, the proletariat) and the tyranny of the decadent minority (the bourgeoisie).

The novel Animal Farm was written by George Orwell and was published in 1945. This novel was adapted into a play by Peter Hall and was further edited by Northgate’s Production Workshop when it was performed at Northgate High School in 2017. Altogether, both versions remain relatively unvaried from each other. However, the two contain stark disparities that make them distinct as well.

Having lived for 15 years in a totalitarian regime, I had no idea something was wrong. Conventional schools crammed students with shallow and heavily theoretical lessons. The decaying society fed its citizens with corrupt morality, ambiguous justice, and absurd common sense. Out there is a world of uninspired children, unimaginative students, inept adolescents, and indifferent adults. So similar I was to Boxer the horse from Animal Farm, working diligently with only more burden in return. My superego and ego always argued aggressively over the rightness of what I do and what society does, in the same manner of Winston Smith from 1984. When I finally moved to a democracy, I realized: someone who lives by a garbage dump never knows that it reeks until they move

In the book “Animal Farm” George Orwell uses terms in his book such as allegory, anthropomorphism, and on the farm in the book a dystopia. He incorporates the terms to his story and at sometimes to his characters in the book. George Orwell’s characters represents to significantly to people in history such as Joseph Stalin And Leon Trotsky. He refers in the beginning of the book to the start of the Russian rebellion and the uprising of the Soviet Union. In The book Animal Farm he tells us all about how the corrupt farm is, but on the farm it’s seen significantly as a government in reality despite not trying to be as much as human. People he preferences to all the time is Stalin or known as in the book Napoleon and also trotsky the rival of stalin or better known in the book animal farm snowball.