The Novel ' Animal Farm '

On a chilly Autumn evening, my cousins and I were roaming around the Promenade Mall. We had been talking about where we would all like to travel to in the future with excitement but that had been until our attention was caught by a younger girl. We had noticed as we walked closer that two older girls had been making fun of her appearance. This greatly bothered us. We viewed bullying as as something that no one should have to tolerate. Immediately, we walked up to the girls. I stood in front of the younger girl pushing her back with my arm to assure them that they should back off or else they would have a major problem. My cousins and I went straight to telling her off on how what they were saying to the younger girl was wrong and how they should use empathy. The girls reacted just as how I expected, frightened. After around 45 seconds of doing so, we walked away with a smirk on our faces and invited the younger girl to join us as we went on shopping. Always stand up for what you believe in. It is better to stand out by doing the right thing than to do nothing and blend with the crowd. In Animal Farm written by George Orwell, the animals in the manor farm were being mistreated. They decided to take charge and to have a rebellion for they knew that they way Mr. Jones was treating them was wrong. The animals later created their own commandments but later they find out that holding all of the power to yourself leads to negative outcomes.

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.

Another pig, Snowball, takes charge with him at the beginning of the book, and wants what is truly best for the citizens of Animal Farm. “The pig snowball represents the early, Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky” (Seidel). Snowball can be considered the “better” one of the two, as Napoleon had different methods of leading. It seems every opportunity they have to disagree on a topic, they argue. Their main conflict becomes whether or not they should build a windmill to provide electricity to make Eventually, at the peak of their fighting, Napoleon starts taking control by force during one of Snowball’s speeches. “At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn” (Orwell, 53). The other animals knew Snowball wanted what was truly best for them, but influenced by Napoleon’s brain washing and scare tactics, Snowball was finally banished. “…Napoleon drives Snowball out of the barnyard. Similarly, Stalin drove Trotsky from Russia” (Seidel). However, Napoleon used more than his force to control his fellow

"Of the golden future time.. Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown, and the fruitful fields of England shall be trod by beast alone. Rings shall vanish from our noses, and the harness from our back, bit and spur shall rust forever, cruel whips no more shall crack." This song gave the animals hope that one day life on the farm would be better. Animal Farm is a mockery of a free society and the needs for change. When the pendulum of power swings drastically in either direction "absolute power tends to corrupt." The animals traded the rule of Mr. Jones for the pigs whom they believed would treat them more fairly, but once the pigs gained total control they lost sight of their goal to make life on the farm better for everyone.

In George Orwell’s book Animal Farm, which is an allegory of the Russian Communist revolution that occurred in the early XX century, is narrated the establishment and evolution of a totalitarian system which is ruled by the pigs, under the supreme control of Napoleon, corresponding to Stalin in the Soviet context. The dictatorship is based on manipulation, corruption, propaganda, fear, and violence. The initial, pure idea of “animalism” turns into a strict ruthless regime where a restricted number of animals enjoys the results of the hard work and sacrifices of others.

What is freedom, is it a necessity, do we need it or do we just crave it? Freedom is defined in the dictionary as the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint. Freedom is a concept that the animals in George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm crave. The animals of Animal Farm want freedom from their “dictator” Farmer Jones and the rest of humanity. Their problem is that Farmer Jones and humanity are still in power. With the bravery of two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, the animals overthrow their human oppressors and free themselves from humanity. With his new freedom Napoleon craves power and expels Snowball. He becomes the dictator of Animal Farm and makes the farm a place where the animals are not free except for his fellow pigs. Ultimately the pigs become identical to Farmer Jones and his human rule. The most relevant literary elements in George Orwell 's novel Animal Farm are irony, personification, conflict, and the use of symbols. 4/5

In Animal Farm by George Orwell, history seems to be repeating itself. The leader appears to be using Karl Marx’s theory of the need for a dictatorship of the proletariat, or the working-class people (Jacobus). More and more corruption, the dishonest conduct by those in power, keeps occurring because the leadership claims a monopoly on reason and resources while the common people suffer and grow hungry. The leader forgets about his own beliefs due to the overwhelming power and it turned him into what the farm had once rebelled against.

In George Orwell's allegorical novel 'Animal Farm', there are a number of conflicting characters all with very different intentions. The two main characters are Napoleon and Snowball who represent the dispute between Stalin and Trotsky, two conflicting members of the communist party during the Russian Revolution in 1917. These two personalities compete for absolute power over the farm animals and both have very contradictory ideas on how it should governed. In this satirised novel it portrays an image of corruption and total dictatorship which inevitably, fails due to Napoleons lack of consideration for the other animals.

Animal Farm is a story set on a typical English farm. As the story begins, Mr. Jones, the manager of Manor Farm, is drunk and headed off to bed after forgetting to properly secure his farm's outbuildings. In the barn, the animals gather to hear a speech by Old Major, a pig who is a highly respected member of the animal community. Old Major knows that he will die soon, and he wants to pass along the wisdom he has acquired over his lifetime. He tells his barnyard companions that humans are to blame for the miserable existence that animals must endure. The life of animals is filled with labor and suffering, only to be cut short when they are no longer useful. Major tells his friends a dream that he had the previous night, a dream of a world where

Napoleon and Snowball play a major role in the story and revolution, portraying a large deal of power, manipulating half of the animal farm. Successfully conveying principles of Animalism with the others. Names chosen to represent the moral of the story, are picked carefully and with a powerful use of meaning. Napoleon, a name representing his stern sense of leadership, his incredible lust for power and pride. Napoleons Minister of propaganda, “skipping” any questions with intent of objection, convoluting his knowledge to somehow prove his point. Snowball, based on Leon Trotsky, a Soviet politician and theorist, while being both Marxist and Leninist, he advanced his theories and developed his own form of Marxism, calling it Trotskyism. Displaying socialism and while also continuing the

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegory based Russian Revolution. This book shows that parties of power can easily over rule the classes of society. This allegory shows forms of dreams control and power related to the Russian Revolution.

I am Nicholas II of Russia or was Nicholas II of Russia, now I’m just Nicholas II. I has forced out of my power back in March. It was an unfortunate event, but I got over it. I own a clothing line now. Other than that, I haven’t done much. I read a book called Animal Farm. It was pretty funny. It kind of reminds me of when I got kicked out of my own farm.

Although George Orwell’s Animal Farm was created in order to mimic individuals as well as occurrences that took place during the Russian Revolution period, it is still possible to gain a comprehensive understanding of the text without a past knowledge of history through the exploitation of human nature’s imperfections. Following the publishment of his novel, Orwell confirmed that his goal in writing this fable was to expose the wrongdoing of the Soviet Union as well as the treachery of the true ideas of the Revolution. Nonetheless, there have been several other examples of events such as the French Revolution that can effortlessly be contrasted against components of the allegory. However, we need not to dig no deeper than to the