Animal Farm Movie Comparison

To begin, despite his selfishness and cruelty, Mr. Jones was a faithful man throughout Orwell’s novel, unlike in the film. Orwell’s novel depicts Mr. Jones’ compassion through his marriage, despite his horrific acts. However, the film has Mr. Jones inappropriately involved with Mr. Pilkington’s wife. This demonstrates how heartless he is because he did not care about destroying two marriages over his reckless actions. This event most likely was placed into the movie for dramatic effect. Mr. Jones was perceived as somewhat caring due to his marriage, but this perception transformed as he had relations with another man’s wife. In addition, within the film, Mr. Jones’ wife tells her husband he must feed the animals.

This makes Mrs. Jones seem compassionate even though her husband is not concerned about their well-being. Meanwhile, in the novel, his wife was dragged on throughout, seeming unimportant to the story’s development. The audience never reads about Mrs. Jones’ emotions toward her husband’s actions. The occurrence of this event during the film explains that Mr. Jones’ determination to damage the animals was so powerful, not even his wife could interfere with it. Mrs. Jones telling her husband something as simple as “feed the animal” in the film transforms her personality greatly

In the novel, the maxim reads “I will work harder”, proving Boxer’s true determination. The maxim shows Boxer is committed to putting his all into his work, which leads to him working twice as vigorous as every other animal. Boxer’s maxim is modified to “I can work harder”. The one word change makes it seem as if Boxer is not working his hardest, but he is. He puts one-hundred-ten percent into his job, but the maxim in the film makes it appear that he is lazy. Overall, Boxer is a hard-worker, but the change of his maxim in the film does not justify his true work