Essays On Animal Farm By George Orwell

by George Orwell Essay

Animal Farm Napoleon was able to take command of animal farm using several different methods. He used the stupid animals like the sheep and the dogs, he uses snowball as a non–present "threat" by saying that he is to blame for vicious rumours sent round the farm, probably started by one of the pigs. He also uses the pigs to mingle with other animals and talk about how wonderful Napoleon is and how he is always right. Also he uses physical things to distinguish him from the other pigs and animals. The Sheep and The Dogs Napoleon uses the sheep because they were quite stupid and gullible. Once he had taught them the maxim "four legs good, two legs bad" they bleated it over and over whenever they were troubled or there was...show more content...

He also tells the animals that Snowball is living on a neighbouring farm and is plotting to attack Animal farm. Then later on in the story when the windmill gets knocked down for the first time Napoleon blames it on Snowball. Also the whole way through the story there are always roomers going around the farm about what Snowball might do next. When Napoleon is getting the animals to confess to their treachery and then slaughtering them they animals all say they have been persuaded to do such evil things by Snowball, whether he came to them in a dream, visited them under the cover of night or got them on their own during the day. I could not quite work this out as I thought that Snowball was just a spoken "threat" and that he no longer had anything to do with any of the animals on the farm. Squealer Squealer is almost Napoleons sidekick. He does all Napoleon's dirty work, and he also goes out to talk to the other animals to make sure they don't say anything bad about him, that they still think he is wonderful, knowledgeable, and always right. Squealer is the messenger. He is the one who is sent, when the commandments have been slightly adapted, to explain the change, or not as the animals think. One example is when the pigs move into the farmhouse and sleep in the beds. The commandment was changed from "no animal shall sleep in a bed"

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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. Animal farm introduces real life problems using animals on a farm. The narrator focuses on leaders. The novel taught me now you should believe those are seeking the truth– doubt those who find it. According to the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell it states, ''Ah, that is different!" said Boxer. "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.'' The reason for this is because Napoleon took control of the farm and found out a way to command people to do his responsibilities and jobs, its when the animals started to get blinded by him. They thought that whatever Napoleon said

I personally thought animal farm was a really good book. It was a simple, easy to read story. The analysis of this book is pretty easy to figure out. Animal farm represents Communism in Russia and it is just being retold in his book by farm animals. Every part of Joseph Sterling's rise to power is in this book. The Russian Revolution represents the animals overthrowing Mr. Jones. Old Major (a boar) gathers the animals of the manor farm together for a meeting in the barn. He tells all of them of the dream he had. That all animals lived together in a community with no humans to take control of them. He tells them that they must work towards this paradise and teaches them a song called "Beasts of England" in which his dram was described....show more content...

At the meeting to vote on whether to build the windmill, Snowball gives a passionate speech that seems to have won the day. But Napoleon gives a strange signal and nine attack dogs–the puppies Napoleon has been "educating"–burst in to the barn and attack Snowball, chasing him from the farm. Napoleon becomes the leader of Animal Farm, and declares that there will be no more meetings, from now on, the pigs will make all the decisions in private–for everyone's best interest. Napoleon changes his mind about the windmill, and the animals, especially Boxer, devote their efforts to completing it. After a storm one night, the windmill is found toppled. Them human farmers in the area declare smugly that the animals made the walls too thin, but Napoleon claims that Snowball returned to the farm to sabotage the windmill. He stages a great purge during which an animal found to be in Snowball's great conspiracy–meaning any animal who opposes Napoleon's uncontested leadership–is killed by the dogs. His leadership unquestioned (Boxer makes "Napoleon is always right" his second maxim), Napoleon begins to act more and more like a human being–sleeping in a bed, drinking whisky, and engaging in trade with neighboring farmers. His propagandist, the pig Squealer, justifies every action to the common animals, , convincing them that Napoleon is a great leader–this despite the fact that they are cold, hungry, overworked and miserable. Mr. Frederick, a neighboring Get more content

The Importance Of Animal Farm

By George Orwell

One day at Manor Farm that was ran by Mr. Jones, the animals took over and started their big revolution but over the years their leaders changed and the farm started to fall apart. In Animal Farm written by George Orwell the animal revolution failed indefinitely because the original ideas of the revolution that Old Major spoke about were forgotten over time, Napoleon was unfair to the animals that were in the lower class and the pigs started to act like the humans that ran the farm before them.

The animal revolution failed because the original ideas of the revolution were forgotten over time. The night when Old Major spoke about taking over Manor Farm and what he saw in that dream he spoke about the seven commandments which were going to...show more content... "Beasts of England has been abolished. From now onwards it was forbidden to sing it. The animals were taken aback. "Why?" cried Muriel. "It's no longer needed, comrade," said Squealer stiffly. "Beasts of England was the song of the Rebellion. But the Rebellion is now completed."(88) Since Squealer was such a good persuader all the animals forgot about the song that wasn't really about the Rebellion but more for the pride of the animals and they moved on to a song that was more about Napoleon than it's was about the farm and the animals. The animal revolution fails because the original ideas of the revolution spoken by Old Major were forgotten.

Another failure that happened during the revolution was that Napoleon was unfair with the animals that were in the lower class. As soon as Snowball got ran out of the farm Napoleon had them already working right away and they spend long hours on the farm. "Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty–hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well."(59) He's unfair here because the average amount of work is around 47 hours and people don't really work on the weekends so to the lower class they were getting tired and they needed food and water but the bins in the shed were nearly finished so Napoleon took to action. "In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store–shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what

Humor in Animal Farm

by George Orwell Essay

In the novel Animal Farm, the writer satirizes certain characters, in an effort to depict society in a humorous way. This essay will focus on the characters of Boxer, Mollie and Napoleon. Boxer, described as a huge strong horse, is used by Orwell to represent the proletariat or working class of Russia. Orwell may have been a socialist, but he didn't hesitate to give a less than flattering portrayal of the mighty beast. Amongst Boxers qualities of being brave, loyal, selfless and compassionate, he is largely criticized for his stupidity and gullible attitude. Harsh isn't it? Throughout the book Boxer takes on the motto's "I will work harder." And "Napoleon is always right.", by doing this Orwell suggests that the Russian people were far too...show more content...

Eventually Mollie runs away from the farm in search of a more comfortable life where she could receive all the luxuries she had in Jones' time. Similarly, the middle class in Russia fled to the west when they were asked to give up their luxuries. Coincidence? I think not. Some farmers name their pigs Wilbur; others name them after tyrannical dictators. By naming Napoleon (the pig) after Napoleon (the crazy French man), Orwell is referring to the possibility that Karl Marx' theory of "communism" had the same faults as the French theory of "liberty". That is, corruption. Orwell uses Napoleons character to illustrate the Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Orwell's dislike for the leader is clearly noted. He criticizes the Soviet leaders by depicting them as power hungry pigs. When the farm experienced a food shortage Napoleon covered it up by filling the granaries with sand. In 1928 the USSR suffered immense famine. Stalin covered this up by sending false propaganda out into the west. During Napoleons rule he made use of huge dogs to take out anybody who opposed his tyranny, much like Stalin had used a secret police called the NKVD to take out his opposition Leon "Snowball" Trotsky. Orwell criticizes the soviets way of doing things, using the windmill. When the windmill comes crashing down, along with all the hard work

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Of all of the characters in Animal Farm, are there any who seem to represent the point of view of the author? Which of the animals or people do you think come(s) closest to achieving Orwell's perspective on Animal Farm?

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After watching the movie and the novel of animal farm, I believe there are some characters that can not only represent the point of view of the author, but also the the point of view of the implied readers. Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella byGeorge Orwell, first published in England on 17 August,1945. It has lots of characters in the novel, like the pig named Napoleon, who always put his benefits at first, put other animals in the dark.I think Snowball is represent the author's view. The big; and the Jessi, the dog, represents people who just like me. Fable is one kind of way of expression to describe or explain one thing, especially for using fable show the dark side of something, we can see the irony in it. When we see the fable has irony in it, we should...show more content...

The author might be using this character to represent himself. Snowball, is important, because after he is gone, the farm starts to stay in the dark when the leader is Napoleon. He tries to take the control over all the animals, not only for his own benefits, it is for all the animals that can live comfortable and have a beauty future. He have done so much for the animals, also he is the main one who follows and keeps doing the old major's thinking, the Socialist rhetoric of peace. He tries to inherit the thinking, but he didn't own the biggest power and rights, so he can not. When the leader has the different thinking, he must follow, otherwise, he is the traitor. I think this character can perfectly good describe the position of the author,that he didn't own the biggest power, so can not do something good for all the animals,

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By George Orwell

An ideology is a set of opinions or beliefs of a group or an individual. Very often ideology refers to a set of political beliefs or a set of ideas. Our ideology is our most closely held set of values and feelings, and it acts as the filter through which we see everything and everybody.

Introduction: Description: Old Major is discussing his hate and the injustice upon the animals at Manor Farm and his beliefs and ideology. This was the creation of Animalism or what we call Communism. Enmity: The state or the feeling of being hostile or opposed to someone or something. Vices: Unjust or immoral behavior. Tyrannise: Rule or treat someone cruelly or immorally Thesis: The passage is a set of beliefs and rules made by OId Major, this greatly exemplifies a communist society because he believes that all animals are equal or in a society, all humans are equal. In a communist society, everyone is equal, they are paid the same wage, treated the same and so on. We can see the similarities between the actions in the book compared to actions in the real world, the animals rebel against the unjust humans and will no longer work for them and in the real world, the workers rebel against the bourgeoisie and unite everyone....show more content...

Main Ideas/Themes: Equality: In the passage, Old Major mentions that no animal must tyrannize one another and respect each other because they are all equal. Hatred: Old Major mentions multiple times his hatred towards man, he says that man is an enemy and while fighting man they must never become one, such as wearing clothes, drinking alcohol or smoking

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Farm, by George Orwell Essay

In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the pig Napoleon uses specific tactics to gain power and control over the animal farm. Some of these techniques include controlling information through education, scapegoating, use of fear, swaying public opinion and blind obedience. Throughout the novel, the most prominent way that Napoleon gained power was through controlling the education that the animals received. In the beginning of the novel, Snowball believes in educating all of the animals on Animal Farm, young and old, by trying to organize committees and instituting classes devoted to reading and writing (page 39). However, Napoleon openly states that educating the young is more important that the old....show more content...

Every single thing that goes wrong on the farm is immediately deemed as being Snowball's doing.

The use of fear is another tactic practiced by Napoleon and his followers. When Napoleon orders that the milk and apples be used only for pigs, the first excuse is that the pigs need it to fulfill their duties as leaders, and added to the end is "Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! ...Surely... there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?" (42). Again when Snowball is driven out, Napoleon uses public executions to show the other animals what will happen if they make contact with Snowball (82).

Blind obedience plays a role in Napoleon's rise to power. Because the animals don't have an education, they don't bother to think for themselves and instead take everything Squealer tells them for the truth. Examples of this are mainly portrayed by Boxer, who upholds the mottos "I will work harder!" and "Napoleon is always right!" (81). At the beginning of the novel, we learn that the sheep learn the maxim "Four legs good, two legs bad" in order to understand the basic spirit of Animalism (41). When Napoleon gains power, he

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Persuasive Essay On Animal Farm

By George Orwell

There's a lot of things going on in this world some people know what's going on and some don't even know what's even going on they don't even know what kind of mistake we have done.We people are losing the freedom and everything that is helping us are basically almost gone because of our new president Donald Trump.There's a book called Animal Farm byGeorge Orwell that talks about animals that want freedom and want an honest respectful leader well there's an animal named Napoleon that makes animals lose freedom and everything that the animals wanted.Napoleon is a leader from the book Animal Farm. I chose Napoleon because he was the meanest, fearful, mercilessly, and stricter animal on the farm it's like our president,he's trying to protect

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The power behind the whip causes agony to ripple across my back, and a memory flickers in the back of my mind. It is a picture of a better world when we would be free of the cruelty of man. It is just a distant thought as I try and remember if this life is any better than when Jones was here. My memory grows dimmer as Napoleon raises the whip again, and the dogs growl. What if there is a world parallel to our own? One that reflects the very people from our history? The revolution of animals on Manor Farm relates to real life Soviet Russia during World War 2, under the oppressive rule of Joseph Stalin. This is Animal Farm by George Orwell. This is that parallel world. Under the guidance of a prize boar by the name Old Major, the animals on...show more content...

Each story has some form of conflict to keep it going– to hold the attention of the audience. There are four kinds of conflict, three of which are present in this fable. Character versus character, character versus society, and character versus nature. Character versus character conflict occurs between Napoleon and Snowball– between Stalin and Trotsky. An example of this that Orwell wrote in Animal Farm would be, 'As usual, Snowball and Napoleon were in disagreement... The one argued that if they could not defend themselves, they were bound to be conquered, the other argued that if rebellions happened everywhere, they would have no need to defend themselves' (66). Character versus society, occurs between Snowball and the other animals.

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by George Orwell

This novel takes place at a farm, which its name is Manor Farm, who's owned by Mr. Jones. He a drunk that never really took care of his animals. There was a Boar that lived on the farm his name was Old Major. He is twelve years old, had lately grown rather stout, majestic– looking pig, tushes never been cut, and wise and benevolent appearance. He sets up a meeting to discuss an important matter that happened to him the night before.

The discussion to place at night after Mr. Jones was asleep. In a barn is where all the animals had gather to listen to Old Major speech. Three dogs, a cat, pigeons, hens, pigs, cows, sheep's, two horses named Clover, mother that never got her figure...show more content... In the past years Mr. Jones lost money in a lawsuit. Afterwards he drank more, the field was full of weeds, and the animals were getting underfed. When June came they just started to forget feeding the animals. They got so hungry they went to the store–shed a broke the doors open. Mr. Jones and four men went there and started whipping the animals. Their reaction was different this time, and they ended chasing Mr. Jones and his men off of their property.

They've been learning how to read and write and with the sign that said Manor Farm, they changed to Animal Farm. Napoleon took puppies from the mother because he was going to teach them how to read and write. He took them and stuck them on the second floor, which you needed a ladder to get up there. Eventually everyone forgot about the puppies. They also wrote on a wall were the Seven Commandments, which are 1) Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2) Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3) No animal shall wear clothes. 4) No animal shall sleep in bed. 5) No animal shall drink alcohol. 6) No animal shall kill any other animal. 7) All animals are equal.

They went to the hayfield, to collect food for the harvest. It was the biggest harvest ever. The pigs were the ones who directed the animals all of the work. During the summer they all worked. Every Sunday they had a meeting and ended the meeting with the song Beast of England.

Animal Farm George Orwell 128 Pages George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Blair, was born in Bengal in 1903. He was educated at Eton School in England, and then served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He returned to Europe and became a writer of novels and essays. Much of his work was political, and although he had a hatred of Communism, he was a socialist. Orwell died at the age of forty–seven of a lung problem, leaving behind several unfinished works. Animal Farm is a parody of the Communist revolution in Russia, and as a result its themes are the evils of totalitarianism and selfishness, and also the importance of hard work. Animal Farm tells the story of theBolshevik revolution in Russia, but from a viewpoint slightly more...show more content...

? All animals are equal. The animals then proceed to the hay fields, where they make it their goal to get the harvest done faster than the humans ever could. Each animal does his or her share of the harvest, relative to his or her strength and size. Boxer, one of two carthorses on the farm and certainly the strongest animal, does most of the work, and the animals are able to finish the harvest in two days less time than the humans normally took. Within the first year of the animals’ revolution on the farm (which they had proceeded to name “Animal Farm';), news had spread to the neighboring areas, and Snowball and Napoleon send out groups of pigeons to spread the principles of Animalism. Not long after, however, one of these flights of birds spy a group of humans, led by Jones, coming down the path leading to Animal Farm. The pigs, which had been prepared for such a situation, get everyone to their posts, and Snowball sends out a group of pigeons to harass the humans as the other animals get ready for a larger attack. Then, the geese and sheep, led by Snowball, peck and ram the legs of the humans. Snowball orders this group to retreat, however, and the humans, thinking that the animals are retreating, begin to shout with joy. As they move further into the farm, the rest of the animals, including the three horses, come out of their hiding places, and successfully fight the humans off. Over the next few months, the animals hold

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George Orwell

Animal Farm Book Review Summary Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. It is an allegory in which animals play the roles of Russian revolutionists, and overthrow the human owners of the farm. Once the farm has been taken over by the animals, they are all equal at first, but class and status soon separates the different animal species. This story describes how a society's ideologies can be manipulated by those in political power, to cause corruption by those in leadership. Plot The story begins with old major, a boar, who tells the animals of manor farm, his dream of freedom and life without humans. He makes a warning to them of a rebellion. Saying they should never accept any human leaders. Or allow humans to tyrannize over...show more content...

Napoleon – autocratic dictator. Snowball– thoughtful fighter for what is right. Squealer– manipulative spokesperson for Napoleon's ideas. Boxer–strong, dedicated and loyal horse. The most interesting character I found was Squealer. My reasons being, he served Napoleon following everything he said. Whist using excuses and lies to justify Napoleon's treacherous acts. This made him to be like an under–dog whose purpose was to corrupt, exploit and confuse the other animals on the farm. The character I had the most sympathy for was Snowball. He tried to make a way for the animals to see that Napoleons views were wrong, but the animals were adamant to listen to the rumors and sabotages that he claimed they were doing on the farm. One of the most major conflicts between two of the characters on the farm, was the struggle between Napoleon and Snowball having leadership over the farm. A pig versus pig battle. Eventually leading, to Napoleon getting his comrades to drive snowball out of the farm. His plan worked, which then assumed his power over animal farm. The Style The story is written in third person narrative. I feel the choice of narrative style is important, because it adds effect to the story to engage the reader. I feel the writer uses description in a very effective way. An example of this is the way he describes Napoleon as a 'reign of terror', giving us a view on how Napoleon conducts Get more content

Animal Farm, By George

Orwell

In George Orwell's "Animal Farm", the pigs as the farm leaders, use unknown language, invoke scare tactics and create specific laws, thereby enabling them to control other animals, to suit their greedy desires, and to perform actions outside their realm of power. Because of the pigs' use of broad language, and the implementation of these tactics they are able to get away with avoiding laws, and are able to convince other animals into believing untrue stories that are beneficial to the pigs. The first method in which the pigs use language to abuse their power is by using extensive detail and using vocabulary foreign to most animals. An example of the pigs using unknown terms can be found when Squealer explains to the other animals about how hard the pigs need to work to keep the farm running. "There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organization of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. For example, Squealer told them that the pigs had to expend enormous labours every day upon mysterious things called 'files,' 'reports,' 'minutes,' and 'memoranda'..." (Orwell 129). In this scene, the animals, being exhausted, hungry, and overworked, are told about how the pigs work just as hard as they do. Although this is completely untrue, seeing that the pigs only occupy themselves in self–centered and self–beneficial engagements, the other animals believe it to be true because they

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Animal Farm, By George Orwell

These rebellious animals think no man means freedom and happiness, but they need to think again. The animals of Manor Farm rebel against the farm owner, Mr. Jones, and name it Animal Farm. The animals create Animalism, with seven commandments. As everything seems going well, two of the animals get into a rivalry, and things start changing. Food starts disappearing and commandments are changed, and the power begins to shift. Father of dystopian genre, George Orwell writes an interesting allegory, Animal Farm, including common themes and symbols relating to modern–day political events.

Eric Arthur Blair, with a pen name of George Orwell, was born on June 25, 1903 ("George Orwell."). Blair described his young life as boring and dull, and his dad was never around ("George Orwell Biography."). He was taught in England and then joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, one of the British colonies ("George Orwell."). Orwell then moved to France and worked many jobs due to his lack of success of an author ("George Orwell Biography."). Orwell's first major work was published under the name of George Orwell to not disappoint his family ("George Orwell Biography."). His beliefs had now changed from anarchy to socialism ("George Orwell."). When he had encountered some Soviet–Communists, he had become an anti–Stalinist ("George Orwell."). In 1945, His Animal Farm was published, and four years later, Eric Arthur Blair published 1984 ("George Orwell."). Then, in 1950, tuberculosis took

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by George Orwell

Orwell deals with the problem of rhetoric in 'Animal Farm' by demonstrating how language can cause corruption. There are many characters in his book 'Animal Farm' that use rhetoric to convince and manipulate, however, the most talented persuasive speaker is Squealer. Squealer's ability to use rhetoric is unrivalled, this is the reason Napoleon rises to power. Squealer uses the power in language to distort the truth in his speeches. When Napoleon wanted a problem fixed he would simply ask Squealer to talk to the animals and the animals would believe and be on board with whatever he said. Squealer uses many persuasive techniques such as rhetorical questions, inclusive language and exaggeration, but most of all he uses rhetoric. Rhetoric,...show more content...

He had no persuasive power but he had fear. Later in the book to justify what he did to Snowball he employed Squealer to make Snowball look like a bad guy which in doing so inferred that Napoleon was the good guy. Once again Squealer uses the power of language to distort the truth and use persuasive rhetorical questions that the animals can only agree with." Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?", he persuaded the animals to believe that Snowball was plotting to get Mr. Jones back in control by double crossing them at the battle of the cowshed. He made the animals believe that Snowball was evil from the start and even though at first the animals did not believe it, they quickly disregarded their shared thoughts just because they were told to do so by a pig. Benjamin, the donkey sees straight through this but never bothers to tell anyone. When an animal said that Snowball did in fact fight well in the battle of the cowshed Squealer was quick to say that it had all been staged and they all believed it. This demonstrates the gullibility of the animals. The animals are easy targets for Squealer and the pigs as they are uneducated, ignorant and gullible. They are easily convinced and controlled. It only takes a couple of swift words from Squealer and you will have almost all the animals on board and agreeing with him. An extra comment here and there and he would have all the animals

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by George Orwell Essay

George Orwell was a great writer; he created a book with many different qualities. Animal Farm is an allegory, fable, and a satire. He made the characters in the novel relate to real people and events in history. Examples such allegory would be Animalism compared with Communism, Snowball compared with Leon Trotsky, and Napoleon compared to Joseph Stalin.

Animalism in many ways does symbolize Communism. Animalism for the animals would be a perfect land, no rich, no poor, and everyone is equal. They all would own the same amount of the farm. No animal would be above any other animal. As in a communistic society, they would all work the same and receive the same. The government would own everything and they people would own the government....show more content... Animalism was created to represent communism, and it succeeded well.

Snowball represents Leon Trotsky from World War One. Snowball was young, smart, and a very good speaker. He was idealistic, and he wanted to make life for all animals easier and happier. Leon Trotsky also wanted to improve the life for allRussian people. For most of his life Leon Trotsky was a "man without a country," banished from one land to another. He was exiled from many different countries. He organized the famous Red Army. Snowball was the plotter for the "Battle of the Cowshed". Trotsky and Joseph Stalin struggled for leadership, as did Snowball and Napoleon. Snowball was chased away by Napoleon's dogs. Trotsky was chased away by Lenin's secret police (KGB). George Orwell had a great talent in creating such a character as Snowball to symbolize Leon Trotsky.

As for Napoleon, he represented Joseph Stalin. Napoleon was not a good speaker, and was not as clever as Snowball was. He was cruel, brutal, selfish, devious, and corrupt. His ambition was for power. He used dogs, Moses, and Squealer to keep the animals in control. Joseph Stalin was also not a good speaker, and was not as educated like Trotsky. He and Napoleon did not follow Marx's ideas. He cared for power, and killed all that opposed him. He used KGB, allowed church, and propagandized. Stalin was probably the most ruthless and successful tyrant the world has known. Napoleon was also very

Animal Farm

By George Orwell

Based on many life experiences, people would say that life is funny as long as they have a positive attitude toward life. Life is funny if people know how to appreciate and cherish themselves. However, funny life does not always accompany with laughter, sometimes it accompanies with ludicrousness and sadness. The truth is that sometimes we laugh at something not because the things itself entertaining, but we think the things are ridiculous; we laugh viciously on some serious things which contradict our common sense, so we laugh. In this way, life is indeed funny too. In the book Animal Farm, George Orwell depicts different kinds of animals who are leaded and tricked by pigs. In his depiction, pigs are the only kind of animal who can read and...show more content...

When people think about a relative or a friend's death, there is nothing related to joy. At the moment people know what bad things are going on to their friends or relatives, from inside to outside, from spiritual to physical, they feel flashy destruction. As Orwell writes in his book, "A cry of horror burst from all the animals. At this moment the man on the box whipped up his horses and the van moved out of the yard at a smart trot. All the animals followed, crying out at the tops of their voices."( Orwell 51) We can easily visualize scene that animals chase the van and cry despairingly after they realize that the van goes to slaughterhouse, but they cannot help Boxer get out from it. Boxer cannot even get out by himself too, because he was down with an illness after working hard for days and years to build up the windmills. What more mournful is that at this terrible extent, the leader of the Animal Farm, pigs are enjoying their fancy life as human did before. From this point, other animals have no hope about their uneasily life. Adding insult to injury, their spiritual mentor Boxer is going to be butchered. Orwell depicts that animals have a dreadful situation which is not comical at all. Woolf points out the same thing that death is extremely hurtful and thorny. She writes, " Lady Bexborough who opened a bazaar, they said, with the telegram in her hand, John, her favorite, killed."(4) From here, we can see a mother's

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Animal Farm

By George Orwell

In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, Orwell creates a world in which animals formulate a plan to take over the farm against the humans. After successfully dominating the farm in which they live in. They then, branch off into divisions which are created by the masterminds behind it all, the pigs. There are three pigs that run the show and they have created a basic system that would divide the animals roles.(9) As silly as this would sound, the only animals really benefiting from this division are the pigs. They are allowed to make the rules because they are more intelligent than the rest of the farm animals.(9) Which gives them the authority to eat as much as they want and eat certain foods the other can't not eat such as apples and milk.

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Animal Farm

By George Orwell

An important quote by the influential author of Animal Farm, George Orwell, is, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism." George Orwell, a Democratic Socialist, wrote the book Animal Farm as an attack on the Communist country of Russia ("The Political Ideas of George Orwell," worldsocialism.org). He had a very strong disliking of Communism and the Socialist party of Russia. However, he insisted on finding the truth regardless of how inconvenient it is ("Introduction," Animal Farm). Orwell also had a strong disliking of the moneyed classes ("The Political Ideas of George Orwell," worldsocialism.org). When he first started as an author, he worked for British Socialism. Additionally, the Russian government developed a strong disliking of him because his work was meant to teach others about the problems with socialism. They even attempted to portray Orwell as clinically insane so the people wouldn't listen to him ("Introduction," Animal Farm). George Orwell's Animal Farm was a satirical allegory, presented in the form of a fable, which was meant to criticize and bring forth a deeper understanding of the probable outcomes of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Russian Revolution was the overall background of Animal Farm, and Orwell's "inspiration" for writing the novella. Orwell incorporated different aspects of the Russian Revolution in his book. By writing it in a manner that was meant to

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