Equality In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Napoleon’s Destruction of Freedom and Equality

The Novella Animal Farm, by George Orwell allegorizes the Russian Revolution, and therefore, many factors of the two compare. The leadership of Napoleon connects directly to the leadership of Joseph Stalin. Similarly to Stalin’s leadership on the people of Russia, Napoleon's leadership progressively destroyed the freedom and equality of the animals on the farm. Before Napoleon lead the farm, the animals had plenty of freedom and equality. Old Major had established Animalism and made rules to allow this concept to work. During a meeting, Old Major had expressed the main ideas of Animalism, including “All animals are equal” (Orwell 11). This made the animals passionate about the idea of Animalism because they wanted equality. This meeting along with many other meetings to come ended with the animals singing a song called Beasts of England. The singing of Beasts of England strongly symbolises the equality of the animals. The first time the animals learned and sang it, it “threw the animals into the wildest

The unison of the singing shows that they all had an equal voice on the farm. Once the animals took over the farm from farmer Jones they felt very prideful. They looked around the farm and marveled “Yes, it was theirs-everything that they could see was theirs!” (22). They had gained their freedom and joyous feelings spread across the farm. Unfortunately, these favorable conditions of the farm would not continue to prosper. Once Napoleon took over, the state of the farm started to decline. Napoleon’s greed predominantly caused this failure. The author uses symbolism to show that Napoleon has more importance than the rest of the animals. After the animals witnessed the dogs chasing Snowball