Situational Irony In George Orwell's Animal Farm

One of the most obvious verbal ironies is shown on Act 3, page 15 and on the paragraph 4 and 5, when the animals finally knew the reason behind the milk’s disappearance when actually it was mixed into the pigs’ mash. The milk and the ripened early apples was expected by the animals to be share out equally, then it turned out that everything must be given to the pigs in order to keep them in good health. This is an irony to what they previously said in Act 2, page 11 which the 7th commandment mentioned that all animals are equal. Clearly the pigs were not treating the animals fair and equal enough.

After the pigs meet with the humans, the animals see the pigs walking out of the house on two legs with whips in their trotters, which causes the animals to be shocked: “It was a pig walking on his hind legs. Yes, it was Squealer… And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs… and out came Napoleon himself… He carried a whip in his trotter” (Orwell 131-132). The animals soon realize what is happening on the farm, the pigs are starting to act like humans. It is clear that the pigs are exactly like humans, as it is expressed at the resolution of the novella: “ Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 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” (Orwell 139). Since the animals cannot tell the difference between the pigs and the humans, the farm is back to the same place, which is what caused the Rebellion to happen formerly. All the animals went through extremely exhausting work just to end up where they started

Another example of this is when the narrator says, "They had nothing to go on except Squealer's lists and figures." by manipulating the numbers, the pigs are able to convince the animals that their lives are better with Napoleon as their leader. Because of their ignorance, the animals do not realize their lives are indeed worse. Furthermore, the lists and figures are appealing to the society since they reflect what the animals want. This will prevent the animals from rebelling. In conclusion, the animals will not be able to realize the pigs are corrupted due to their lack of education. Second, the pigs are constantly portrayed as heroes due to them telling lies. One example is when Boxer gets sick, and the narrator says, "Benjamin pushed her [Muriel} aside... he read Alfred Simmons, horse slaughterer." The animals are not able to tell that Boxer is going to the slaughterhouse, due to their inability to read. Furthermore, by telling the animals that Boxer is going to the doctor to get better, the pigs are becoming more powerful and credible. This will allow them to take control of the society, create a dictatorship, and tell more lies in the

Revolutions are supposed to induce a new and improved government system. However, in George Orwell's Animal Farm, an attempt to overthrow a human dictator results in an even more corrupt leader taking over. The remaining animals, too ignorant and powerless to defend themselves, are left struggling to survive under dangerous living conditions along with daily threats of starvation, exhaustion, and execution. In Animal Farm, George Orwell asserts the idea that absolute power results in corruption. Napoleon and the other pigs, interested in remaining superior, persuade the other animals by using intimidation and emotional appeals in order to keep control of the gullible animals.

“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.” That was when the animals knew the pig’s use of propaganda was so effective. Before the animals discovered the corruptness of the pigs, the animals of Manor Farm in England, irritated with the ways of life and how they are being treated, decided to start a revolution. The smartest of the animals, the pigs, took control of the farm while the other animals worked. Through the deception of the pigs, they changed the rules of the farm to better accommodate themselves. George Orwell’s historical literature work, Animal Farm, is a political allegory to the Russian Revolution. Orwell tries to convey

Now that the Old Major isn't around, the animals have to plan for the rebellion themselves. “The work of teaching and organizing the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals.” George Orwell employs irony in writing this because there are two young boars who are “preeminent among the pigs,” so all animals are not equal. Among the animals there are some who are better than the others. After the rebellion the pigs lead the animals and tell them what to do and what not to do. After the animals successfully overthrow Mr.Jones, they change the name of the farm from “Manor Farm” to “Animal Farm.” The name of the farm is significant because it signifies that the farm belongs to the animals.

The pigs (mostly Napoleon), begin a moderate regime. From the beginning of this regime, small changes were made, and were disguised as what the animals wanted. For example, cows were and milked and the milk was collected, but when asked what would be done with it, the subject was quickly averted and focused on what else could be done, like harvesting hay (page 26). At first, “the animals were happy as they ever conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute

Many beliefs changed over the course of the book Animal Farm. The animals all follow their leader and would do anything to make sure Napoleon was satisfied. The author really made the characters stand out and it was easy to see which character is good or not so good. The author was trying to relate the book to the Russian Revolution. On page 141, The narrator felt the pigs were becoming human, then acting as a pig, back to a human again. But it was not easy to tell if they were animals or pigs.

A sense of economic change is clearly evident of how the pigs intent to run Animal Farm. The animals are clueless as to why things are the way they are becoming to be. Little by little, the commandments are being dismissed. For instance, on page 29, it says, "The animals reassured him on this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds. And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either" (Orwell). The pigs have disobeyed and broken the rules as they enter the farmhouse, of which was forbidden in the commandments. This reflects how the pigs are eager to change the policies that revolve around the animals. In other words, the pigs want to fully control the animals, the economy, and politics. Animal Farm becomes corrupted as the pigs manipulate the animals.

Leadership is not always a terrible thing. A leader's nature always changes based on what is being done. George Orwell used figurative language in his writing to describe a leader's nature over time. To describe the Russian Revolution, Orwell used personification and imagery to clearly show that overtime the nature of leaders beings to differ. As soon as a leader has power then everything is in their control. Orwell showed throughout the book that power and leadership is very difficult to break apart or to take away from their leader.

In Animal Farm by George Orwell, he uses the animals to represent everyone in our society today. In this novel, satire is the use of animal characters as a representation to show the Russian Revolution. The humans, portrayed by animals, are being ridiculed and it shows the breakdown of political ideology, and the misuse of power. Each of the characters portray an individual in society that expresses how humans can act similarly to animals. We can be perceived as animals because we can be separated by classes, or by our appearances. We often become what we don’t want to be, as in the novel the animals make rules to not become humans. We soon find out that the pigs are standing and becoming just like humans. The pigs hold all the power, and everything is fitted around them.

In global political scenario, December 30, 1921 is, arguably, one of the most important days of the 20th century. On this particular day, an unprecedented history was created; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), world’s first “socialist state” was born out of the historical “Great October Socialist Revolution”. In the long run, USSR/ Soviet Union was not the perfect nation by any means, yet it’s hard to deny the fact that unprecedented changes happened in the world, directly or indirectly, because of its historic creation, imposing presence, and major-league influence in global politics until its ultimate demise in 1991. Like the political scenario, world literature was also changing its face during mid- twentieth century, and the issue of communism had become one of the prominent subjects in the writings of that time. Animal Farm, a novella written by a popular 20th century English writer George Orwell, is both an allegory and satire of the “socialist” state of Soviet Union. His own experience of fighting against the totalitarian communists in Spain in 1938 turned Orwell into one of the most astringent critics of Joseph Stalin and his corrupted autocratic regime in the Soviet Russia. Widely considered as one of the best books of 20th century, Animal Farm is written in simple language but is vastly rich of allegories and satire. I have chosen this literature for my research paper, and I will be using it to argue that even though Orwell criticized the “socialist”

The story starts with Old Major giving an advice to the animals. Old Major advices the animals to be in “perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle”, that they are in now and will be in the future (Orwell 10). The exposition establishes the situation the animals are in and going to be facing. They are at a time when humans are using them to their own benefits. Old Major himself says “the whole of the produce” of the animals’ “labour is stolen from” them “by the human beings” (Orwell 7). The animals find themselves in a similar situation in the ending. The animals peak into the dining-room window to find the pigs interacting with the humans, speaking about the farm. The animals find out from their conversation that the “farm” is considerably “owned and operated by the pigs” (Orwell 137). In the end the animals serves for the pigs’ benefits. What is ironic is that the animals were aiming for complete and perfect equality but they ended in a world which was the same as when Jones was controlling the farm, a world of humans and inequality. The basis of animalism is that “all animals are equal” and that “all men are enemies” (Orwell 10-11). The animals dreamt “of the earth as it will be when Man” is “vanished” (Orwell 11). All the battles were a way for the animals to overthrow

An allegory is a story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden message, typically involving politics. A great example of an allegory is George Orwell’s, “Animal Farm.” When just looking at this story, one would think it was just about animals that ran off their owners and then formed their own lifestyle with an animal leader. On the contrary, if one was to pay attention to the story they would notice that it is pointing the reader to a time in history. Orwell wrote the story around 1944 in reference to the Russian Revolution and to slander the Soviet Union. Throughout the novella, the reader is introduced to the vital characters and is able to connect them to men in history. For example, Old Major the pig was a symbol of Karl Marx. One can see this through the personality and Old Major and also through him telling of his dream. In the beginning of the novel, Major has a dream where all animals were equal. He told the other animals that they did not have to have short lives that were dominated by labor and hunger for the human’s sake. Old Major asked during the giving of his dream if it was not “crystal clear, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?" The dream was used to shadow Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto where Marx presented the evils of feudalism, capitalism, and the ideal world of communism to inspire the Russian Revolution. Marx believed that everything in the worlds history could be explained in result of

The beginning is the monopolization of the apples and milk by the pigs. Despite the assumptions of others that these will be apportioned to everyone, it manifests that only the pigs have the right to enjoy them. The excuses on the part of pigs is “milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig” (23). This seems to be merely a preference for the foods, but starts to establish the superiority of the pigs. Over time, the privilege of the pigs, especially Napoleon, expands so broadly that “the gun [are] fired every year on Napoleon’s birthday, as well as on the other two anniversaries” (62). Such preferential treatment is unreasonable and against the initial principle that all animals are equal, but no animals feel discomfort. They become accustomed to the gradual changes and their senses are paralyzed. The trend of favoritism towards the pigs becomes obvious in the last part of the story. “It [is] laid down as a rule that when a pig and any other animals [meet] on the path the other animal must stand aside” (76). Unlike the previous order of apples and milk, the instruction is not even accompanied by justification. The dominance of pigs over other animals has already been consolidated. He is obsessed with the ambition to seek the pig’s supremacy and is engaged in making the others believe so, with evidence which seems reasonable at