The Dangers Of Animalism In George Orwell's Animal Farm

George Orwell in his novel Animal Farm explores the reality through the abuse of power using the character Napoleon. In order to gain absolute power, Napoleon eliminates any opposition, uses propaganda, and chances the commandments.

George Orwell's goal in writing the novel Animal Farm was to portray the events surrounding the Russian revolution that took place in 1917. Orwell's tale of Animal Farm is seemingly a story of how a group of farmyard animals plot to overthrow their owner and seize control of the land. The novel seems to be a simple story, however Orwell wrote this book as an allegory, a story that has a clear secondary meaning beneath is literal sense. Everything in Animal Farm is used to represent people and events that took place during the Russian revolution from 1917-1939. Orwell chose to represent Russia's three famous leaders during this time with three pigs. Each three are drastically different and have dissimilar

Societies are built on a hierarchy. There is a leader, an upper class, a middle class, and a lower class. This representation of human society is built by our natural need for a leader no matter how tyrannical. George Orwell firmly exposes and attacks this flaw of human nature in his allegorical novel, Animal Farm. In Animal Farm Orwell displays situations mirroring that of the Russian Revolution, and how it failed to produce the utopia that was promised out of the revolution. George Orwell, before writing the novel, was disillusioned by the Communist revolution, a revolution that promised to provide all its people with a government that owned everything, but in turn was owned by the people. Orwell quickly concluded that all revolutions will fail, as the Russian Revolution did, because those who attain power are then corrupted by it. In this view of revolutionary efforts Orwell presents his views on human nature as a whole, that humans are unable to maintain an utopia, unable to abstain for consuming power, and that humans will subjugate and oppress one another if given the power to do so.

Most believe when George Orwell wrote Animal Farm he was trying to warn us about several thing, some of those things include communism, revolution, and class divide. Orwell points out the dangers of communism by putting the dangers in a understandable, digestible cute story with animals. He shows the dangers of revolution by remind us how some revolutionions just end up being a switch a power to someone worse. And he reminds us about the dangers of class divide by have a big ruling class destroy all others. George Orwell wrote “Animal Farm” to remind us the dangers of communism, revolution, and class divide.

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.

“In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days”(Orwell 38). In Animal Farm George Orwell describes life for the animals on a farm in the english countryside during the mid to early 20th century before, during and after a revolution against their master Mr.Jones in order to represent the russian revolution and describe to people throughout the free world how leaders in both capitalist and communist societies oppress the working class as a result Orwell 's tone throughout the novel is concerned. Tsar Nicholas II led Russia into failure in the Russo-Japanese war as well as World War I and allowed the shootings of over one thousand protesters on Bloody Sunday; these actions inspired Orwell to create a representation of tsar Nicholas II in the character Mr.Jones who is known for being drunk and forgetful.

To follow suit, Orwell and Twain both use characters to embody cruelty. Both novels illustrate cruelty in two different ways, the first of which is through physical harm. In Animal Farm, one of the first characters to be introduced is Mr. Jones and he is introduced as a drunkard who neglects his animals. Although this may seem unfair and inhumane, he reaches a point of unbearable cruelty when it is narrated that “he and his four men were in the store-shed with whips in their hands, lashing out in all directions” (Orwell 38). His irresponsible and inhumane nature make Mr. Jones an unfavorable character but once he physically abuses his animals, it is possible to see how truly wicked he is. Without remorse or thought for their well-being, the

Animal Farm, an allegorical novella by George Orwell, depicts a utopian society based on the principles of “Animalism”. Which promises harmony and equality among the animals. As they try to work together to run the farm, power begins to corrupt the harmony between the animals. The dreadful outcomes that occur on the farm conveys humanities insatiable greed to obtain power which destroys the chances of communism which proposes equality to all. On a larger scale Animal Farm is an allegory for the rise and decline of socialism in the Soviet Union. Animal Farm was seen as a hard hitting, realistic and satire but the question is, to what extent is Animal Farm a classic? A text is considered a classic when it expresses artistic quality, stands

Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegorical novel of the Russian Revolution and the rise and manipulation of communism under Joseph Stalin. Animals of the Manor Farm overthrow their malicious previous leader, only to find themselves manipulated, intimidated, slaughtered and

Following the initial rebellion in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Napoleon, the pig leader, begins to change as he exhibits cruel and manipulative behaviors, which results in Napoleon gaining more power. One of these changes is represented when Napoleon begins to show drastic exhibits of cruelty. Under Napoleon’s command, a pack of trained dogs chased away one of his political rivals, Snowball (Orwell 67). This shows that Napoleon used cruelty to eliminate a threat to his oncoming reign. With Snowball gone, Napoleon holds all of the power on Animal Farm. Napoleon’s cruelty, however, never actually killed Snowball, it only scared him away. George Orwell, however

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.

Animal Farm: Societal Concerns Vs. Individual Concerns In any given society, there is always a difference between the concerns of an individual and society. In most cases, an individual’s concern is selfish and only directed towards themselves, despite the effects it may have on people around them.

In George Orwell’s famous novel Animal Farm, he has used allegory to highlight the problems with a communist system. There are many themes involved with Animal Farm, the most important would come down to lies and deceit, manipulation, power and corruption. In Animal Farm George Orwell depicts a ‘utopian’ society based on the principles of ‘animalism’ that promises harmony and equality among the animals. Which then goes to ruins as power, corruption, lies; manipulation and deceit all start to come into play.