Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Animal farm is a book about the struggle to be an animal. It shows how animals do not like the way they are treated by being used to do the humans work for them. The animals are inspired by Old Major who always wanted to overthrow the humans but never saw to it. Animal farm descends into a totalitarianism like government because of greed, power hungry animals, and people not against speaking Napoleon. The pigs in animal farm were very greedy. Every time the pigs can get extra food they take it and do not share their food with the other animals. When the animals find out about this the pigs say that they need the milk/food because they are the smartest and do all the work. The pigs are the leaders in the farm which means that they can take things that they usually do not have. Also the pigs are very smart, Napoleon was the smartest pig and knew how to outsmart all the other animals. He attacked snowball viscously and chased snowball out of the farm. Napoleon began to morph the minds of the other animals to believe that snowball was the real villain and that he broke the windmill. Napoleon basically rewrites history while he is the leader of the Animal Farm by making himself the hero and snowball the villain the pigs act more and more like humans as the story goes on. They start to act like humans and even start to stand like them. The pigs do not even look at the rules of animalism anymore and they are basically humans. That was the reason why they revolted and in the end you cannot even tell the difference between the animals rule and the humans rule Totalitarianism is shown because the animals’ food is being taken, their thoughts are being controlled, and they are being cruelly treated by the pigs. The occasion where the pigs... ... middle of paper ... ... name and it was always meant to be that. This should have been the last straw for the animals because seeing your leader changing your farm name because he wants to act like a human should have been when they revolted. In the end we see a pig and a human playing cards and talking and the other animals could not tell a difference between the two. This just comes to show that if you put all your faith in one person they will never always do the right thing. This shows how animal farm slowly dissolved back into the original form but also a totalitarian state. Overall the Animal farm turned out to be a fraud because they were on their own for years but turned back into the same thing it was when it started. The Manor Farm, Which came to show how much power Napoleon had come to possess and how he had slowly morphed the animals and the farm into a totalitarian state.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how animal farm is a book about the struggle to be an animal. the animals are inspired by old major who always wanted to overthrow the humans but never saw it.
- Analyzes how the pigs in the animal farm were greedy and took extra food. napoleon was the smartest and outsmarted all the other animals.
- Analyzes how napoleon used his nine dogs to drive snowball out of the farm, and how he turned his back on boxer by selling him for whiskey. totalitarianism was used to distract the animals.
- Analyzes how napoleon's dogs ran out snowball from the farm, and boxer stood up and said he was always right. this made all the other animals believe in napoleons policy and rules.
- Analyzes how the animal farm turned out to be a fraud because they were on their own for years but turned back into the same thing it was when it started. the manor farm showed how much power napoleon had come to possess.
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- Analyzes how napoleon inhabits separate apartments in the farm house according to class and knowledge and soon takes his meals alone and eats with the "crown derby dinner service."
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- Analyzes how boxer taught us about strength and perseverance throughout the novel. he was diligent and willing to do anything for napoleon.
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- Explains that animal farm was an exciting novel that taught the world about rebellion and power. freedom motivated the animals to rebel and in the end they lose it all.
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- Analyzes how power is abused differently throughout the book, ranging from taking without producing, to giving certain groups of animals special privileges. the dream of living a utopian life only cycles back the dystopian lifestyle that they had started with.
- Analyzes how jones, the owner of the farm, abuses his power by indulging himself while his animals suffer with very small rations.
- Analyzes how old major's key to power is to eliminate man. the pigs abuse their power even before the rebellion begins.
- Explains that old major died before the successful revolution, which had also meant the elimination of man. snowball, napoleon and squealer used their power to give more special privileges to the pigs.
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- Analyzes how napoleon abused his power by changing the lifestyle animal farm was set out to be lived. he banishes "beasts of england" because he feels that the free life which the song was about has been met.
- Compares the soviet government revising history in order to exercise control over the people's beliefs about soviets and their society.
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