Before the death of Old Major the animals are inspired to rebel against the humans. They join together as a strong team to eventually, in chapter two, drive Mr. Jones from the farm. The Seven Commandments are soon developed with all the animals contented as equals. Right from the beginning of the rebellion, the pigs can be seen to be taking charge, “then Snowball and Napolean called them together again, ‘Comrades’, said Snowball, ‘it is half past six and we have a long day before us.” This quotation from chapter two shows the pigs giving out orders to the other animals and acting as a new Mr. Jones, but seemingly nicer. Throughout the story, the animals begin the trust the pigs more and more, allowing themselves to be told what to do and be taken in with blind devotion. The pigs act on their newly gained trust and by the end of the story are able to lie back on their laurels and run the farm from the comfort of Mr. Jones’ armchair. The rebellion fails due to the blindness of the animals, accepting each other as equal, but do not notice the pigs adding new rules to suit themselves, ‘no animal shall kill another animal without due cause.’ The executions in chapter seven show clearly the animals’ naivety towards the fast approaching leadership of the pigs. During the killings, the animals stand back and do not do a thing. Some animals, like Benjamin, suspect the overthrowing of the rebellion, but are afraid to do anything alone. The rebellion was doomed to failure from the beginning. The pigs easily won the animals over with propaganda. An example of this came soon after the rebellion and the drawing up of the Seven Commandments, with the pigs justifying their need for milk and apples with lies and threats of Jones’ return. Squealer uses propaganda such as rhetorical questions, lies and threats to convince the animals to believe the pigs. Unfortunately for the animals, they are easily led. If it were not for their blind devotion, trust and naivety, they could easily see how the pigs gradually gained power. The pigs also use the dogs as force to keep the animals ‘in line’, discouraging them from trying to rebel. ‘United we stand’ would have worked well for the animals in this case. One animal, Benjamin, did not stand up and face his suspicions, which could have resulted in the return of the phrase ‘all animals are equal’, instead of letting it go so far for the pigs to add ‘but some are more equal than others’ to the end.
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm farm animals drive their cruel owner out to have independence. After this rebellion, the pigs being naturally smart take the role as leaders. The pigs are able to keep their rule because they take advantage of the animals’ horrible memory and lie about the past in order to benefit themselves and sustain a better rule for the future.
By the end of the story, the pigs act upon their gained trust by bossing the animals around to do more work while they lie on their backs and drink because the animals are too stupid to realize that they are being treated unfairly. Because the pigs have advantages when it comes to being smart, they take advantage of the fact that the animals have no idea whats actually going on. Though the pigs rarely do anything, they get more portions of food. Towards the end of the book, the animals see that while they are working very hard for the farm, the pigs are inside drinking and talking with humans. Though they may not realise it, they are not treated equally.
No one had spoke against them when they did something wrong. No one had told the pigs what they were doing was wrong. Instead the animals just went along with all the pigs lies. Doing that the animals had just led themself to their own doom all because no one would stand up to the pigs and now they are letting their history repeat itself.
Leadership is bad the animals couldn't even make decision, they were to dumb the pigs were the only smart one and they would take advantage of that. In chapter three it says, “But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty. As for the horses, they knew every inch of the field, and in fact understood the business of mowing and
Throughout the book we see tales of manipulation by the pigs to the farm animals, without the animals the pigs would have never risen to power yet they let their power go to their head and lied and mistreated the animals to get what they wanted. The beasts had several chances to revolt against the pigs, yet for some reason they turned their heads to the injustice an ignored their senses of both reason and logic, maybe they feared having to be in charge, maybe they were just too naive to see it, or perhaps they truly believed the lies. Whatever their reasoning we see the same things in human society, and George Orwell does a good job of displaying to us how willing society is to turn its head to injustice and consents to being exploited by a higher power.
When they put their kind above any other, they truly broke the meaning of animalism. All the laws were changed to one “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than the others,”(pg.134). When the animals found out about this they where mad. The pigs had broke every single law, they even started to walk in two
The declaration that all animals are equal quickly becomes a lie. Immediately after the revolution the pigs begin to grasp power over the other animals. “The pigs did not actually work… with their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership”, (Pg 35). The increasing leadership of the pigs following the revolution for equality foreshadows that the pigs will rapidly assume as much power as the dictator that they fought against. The pig’s leadership and power also directly contradicts the belief that all animals are equal, mentioned in the earlier paragraph. Orwell demonstrates his ideas by having the ruling class of pigs disobey the guidelines of their beliefs, which they put in place themselves. Orwell’s belief that rebellion becomes corrupt is demonstrated by the animal’s executions. “Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess… they were slain on the spot… and so the tale of confessions and executions went on…”, (Pg 83). The act of purging being committed by the animals directly contradicts the rule that no animal shall harm any other animal. The contradiction of animalism beliefs continues to drive the pigs to mirror the original oppressor. The final contradiction of their beliefs arrives when the pigs make their final transformation into humans which is shown in the following quote. “It was a pig walking on its hind legs…the creatures
Nevertheless, the customs slowly were altered through the story. In Chapter ten the seventh was changed into ,“ ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.” Also in chapter six, the fifth commandment is changed into, “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”. The reason why these set of rules are being changed are for the welfare of the pigs. They are living in a life where they are exceeding the boundaries to their power without believing there will be a punishment for it. In contrast, power has corrupted the society of Animal Farm because of the misuse of
In Chapters three and four of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs become major authoritative figures to the rest of the animals. While the harvest is successful, there are many instances when the pigs begin treating the other animals the exact way humans treated them, going directly against the commandments. The pigs neglect doing any actual work and just shout orders at the horses. The pigs (mainly Squealer, Snowball, and Napoleon) use their intelligence to manipulate the other animals. The manipulating begins when Squealer announces that the milk and apples is necessary for the pigs’ health. Squealer says, “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and
By the end of the story, Orwell states that it “[is] impossible to tell” (p. 141) pig from human as they sit as allies around a table. In the Commandments that once ruled their society, all the animals vowed never to be in contact or trade with a human, let alone act like one. The corruption caused by their rise to power has influenced the pigs so greatly that they have betrayed their people and their beliefs, which were once pure and based on the motives that drove all animals to strive for a better, fairer life. The pigs clearly once passionately believed that, as it was none other than a pig by the name of Old Major who gave the speech that inspired the Animalist rebellion. Old Major himself said that “all men are enemies” (p. 10), and this was an ideal by which all pigs lived prior to their ascent to authority. Through this passage, Orwell clearly warns how even those who seem pure and driven by good can turn horribly bad when given too much
In the beginning of the novel, after the animals have gained their freedom the pigs begin to take power. In doing so as their authority increases as does their entitlement to certain privileges. As stated In chapter 3 “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised others. With their superior knowledge it was natural to assume the leadership.” (page 27). The pigs integrated themselves into a place of power by advancemening their knowledge and creating a mental gap between themselves and the other animals, by doing so decreased their workload. As time passed this theme continued. They began making slight changes in order to either avoid conflict on the farm or to obtain more luxuries solely reserved for them which is unjust because the pigs uses their authority only to better themselves. Near the beginning of the book the animals create the “7 Commandments” or the rules by which the farm was to be governed by. However, as the story progresses slight changes are made by Squealer, at the request of Napoleon. The small tweaks go unnoticed for most of the novel until the pigs take drastic actions which leads to squealer being exposed. Chapter 8 explains “At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the seven commandments were written. There lay a ladder broken into two pieces.
Eventually, the animals revolt, driving out the farmer and setting up their own society. However, from the start, things slowly start to go wrong. The pigs set themselves up as leaders ('first among equals') and began to 'allocate work' to the rest of the animals. The Commandments set up just after the revolution began to be distorted and all questions on the leadership of the pigs or the commands handed down are swiftly deflected by their spokesperson.
Originally it reads, “ All animals are equals.” However, the pigs deceived the animals into believing an addition that says,“but some are more equal than others.” This clearly reveals the corruption of the utopia, and the securing social classes in the farm. Furthermore, Mr.Pilkington says, “If you have your lower animals to contend with we have our lower classes!” Although the revolution started with pure intentions, the temptation of the imperialist world soon corrupted Napoleon’s mentality into a deceptive business owner. The pigs profited from the changes and enforce it with fear and nationalism.
The animals that live on the Animal Farm are victims of Jones and his way of living, but they could have changed their fate before the rebellion. The pigs are shown to be very intellectual, they can read and write. This make them far superior to the other animals on the farm. If the pigs have so much knowledge, then they know how to change their way of life. This is shown because they are the ones one are ultimately in charge of the rebellion and later in charge of the farm.
In conclusion the pigs use fear, safety, and obedience to get the animals to follow them and their rules. In Animal Farm, power meant a lot something the animals didn't have. The animals realized they couldn't do anything to stop because the pigs would kill them. The animals fear the pigs and for their own safety they obey the pigs. At the end of the story the pigs are human like and the animals are all slaves