The Consequences Of Success In Animal Farm, By George Orwell

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.

The first time we see Squealer is when some of the other animals question the consumption of milk and apples by the pigs. This point in the book is significant because it is the first time the pigs are seen to be giving themselves better quality food than the rest of the animals. Squealer is described in the book as a brilliant talker and persuasive. He is excitable and confuses the others with his skipping motions and whisking tail. These actions take the focus away from what he is actually saying. Squealer begins his explanation by using the word "comrades." The use of this word leads the animals to believe he is talking to them as an equal; this would make the animals more likely to believe what he is saying because the animals

The pigs “natural[ly][...] assume[d] leadership”, and broke the most important commandment that “All animals are equal”. Throughout the novella, the pigs accumulate power. The pigs use Squealer and his eloquent mouth to manipulate the animals using propaganda. He manipulates other animals by asking rhetorical questions, “You do not imagine [...] we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?”. The use of a rhetorical question by Orwell highlights irony and satire.

Animal Farm by George Orwell Is Animal Farm by George Orwell merely a political argument or does it manage to entertain the reader as a story in itself In this Personal Study I shall be writing about how Animal Farm by George Orwell entertained me as a novel while putting over a political argument in the process. The opening chapter introduces the theme of revolution that dominates the whole novel, and aswell as doing that it also introduces the farm animals. In Chapter 1 Old Major is the central figure, he gets all the other animals into the barn one night and talks about a revolution, which gets the smartest animals - the pigs, thinking about what could happen.

Squealer uses the fear of all the animals in this hypophora, he asks a question then immediately answers it, to already imprint the answer that he wants in their mind. The animals are traumatized from the days under Jones in the Manor Farm, where they would not get food because he was drunk and he abused them. Therefore, Jones coming back is not an option, and everything will be done in order to keep Jones out of the Animal Farm. Although this shows their nationalism and pride of their own Animal Farm, it also displays their ignorance, to just believe anything Squealer says, without questioning him. Making this the beginning of the separation between the pigs and the other animals, and it was only possible because of the ignorance of the other

In a society where an elite class has access to tools that the masses do not, this elite group of people often use these tools to dominate and oppress society. In George Orwell’s story, Animal Farm, Orwell demonstrates that education is a powerful weapon and is a tool that can be used to one’s advantage. Living in a world where power is easy to gain, the pigs quickly use education (or lack thereof) to manipulate the rest of the animals on the farm to serve themselves. This story ultimately reveals the underlying message that  first, education is important to all levels of society, next, for when it is not, society is stratified, resulting in the masses suffering.

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.

After the animals looked into the window they didn't know what to do. So Benjamin said to the other's that they should head back to the barn. When they walked into the farm they had a wonderful surprise. Boxer didn't get killed he actually got out of the wagon before they got to the factory. Clover was the first one to run up to Boxer. Benjamin was the first one to ask what happened. Benjamin said "What happened? we thought you were dead." Boxer gave him a weird look and said, "Who told you I was dead?" Clover said," Squealer said he was with you when you apparently died." Boxer started thinking why would Squealer be saying he was with him. Boxer started to prance around and kept thinking why would Squealer think that. Benjamin finally spoke up saying,

Several messages about human nature have been reflected in Animal Farm, this has been expressed through characters and their behaviours. Orwell believed that although socialism is an ideal, it could never be obtained successfully due to our thirst for power. For example Napoleon seems at first to be a good leader but he is eventually overcome by greed and soon becomes power hungry. This is seen in the beginning of the novella, the 7 commandments of animalism served all of the animals equality. By chapter 10 the 7 commandments are reduced to one, to benefit one person - Napoleon, “All animals are equal but some are more equal than other” (p.g 90.) This is further exemplified by the use of the windmill to make a profit to fit the pig’s lavish lifestyle instead of using it to provide electricity to the animals

Essentially , Squealer was seen to be the good guy, but he was actually manipulating the animals. He is deceitful to the animals in the lies that he tells them to benefit the pigs. “‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in the spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples”(Orwell, 52). This illustrates how Squealer lied to the animals stating that the pigs need more food while they do nothing and the animals work. Squealer lied about not liking the milk and apples because if they didn’t like them they wouldn’t have

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.

Squealer constantly contorts information into a form that serves to profit the pigs. When Napoleon changed his mind about the windmill, Squealer spoke on his behalf. For instance, “…it was he who had advocated it in the beginning…The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon’s own creation.” (Orwell 71) The language that is he uses is persuasive, and while the animals didn’t completely understand it, they believed in it. In addition, commandments and slogans are constantly changing on the farm, and the animals mindlessly believe that the new parts of the commandments or slogans were supposedly there from the very beginning. Specifically, “Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush and an overturned pot of white paint.” (Orwell 112). This shows that Squealer is held responsible for adding onto the commandments that only caters to benefit the pigs. Napoleon uses Squealer to brainwash the animals into thinking the activities him and the pigs are justified because they are apparently saving the prosperity of the

Tyranny has always been present in human history from Joseph Stalin to Adolf Hitler they have all taken advantage of the public and used them to their own advantage and personal needs. In the story Animal Farm by George Orwell this tyrannical, totalitarian, and corrupt form of government is seen. In the story the tired animals organize a rebellion against their owner and drive him out. They create their own government, with the pigs assuming control. But the corrupt pigs take advantage of this power entrusted to them, and oppress the animal for their own benefit. Even though the pigs abused the power they had, The naive and gullible animals themselves were the ones responsible for the pigs’ quick rise to power and control because the animals were tricked into supporting the pigs evil plans, they were too braindead to organize and execute a rebellion even after they realized the pigs were up to no good, and they were so foolish that they even supported the expulsion of snowball, the only good pig that worked for the good of the other animals.

Animal farm by George Orwell introduces real life problems using animals on a farm. The narrator focuses on leaders. This novel talks about a group of animals that overrule a farm owned by a man named Mr .Jones, but the animals face many corrupt rules, freedom rights, enemies, and arguments between one another. The farm becomes overruled by a pig named Napoleon, and the animals are afraid to go against him. Napoleon soon acts like Mr.Jones and the animals freedom is getting taken away from their hands. The novel's main message was to believe those are seeking the truth- doubt those who find it. The novel relates to the theme because between all of the animals, their was many that were not being true to each other and the main character of the story was trying to lure the animals in a plan once he found out he could takeover the farm, just like how it was in the beginning when Mr. Jones owned the farm.