George Orwell's Animal Farm

Task 1 Part A: A satire to some, but a slanderous novella to us: George Orwell’s Animal Farm uses a plethora of satirical techniques to mock our glorious authoritarian regimes. Throughout the sequence of events, the animals live under ridiculous commandments, such as not wearing clothing or sleeping on beds. They are each rightfully voided until one modified version remains: “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL / BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS” (Orwell, Animal 133). The trimmings of freedom, although a stellar idea for any transitioning society, are mocked through the ambiguity of “equal.” Equality, in the tightest definition, places all members of society at the same socioeconomic levels. The “more equal than others” connotates that equality can be added like a unit, and equality can essentially become unequal. The revolt’s later ideals do not align with the original idea of equality. Also in this defamatory tale, situational irony is used in an attempt to poke fun at our supreme totalitarianism. The original revolt revolved around the replacement of the “corrupt” humans with animals, but in the end, the reverse happenes. The farm animals discover that the pigs are walking on two legs, in contrary to all previous norms and laws. Simply put, during a party between the pigs and other farmers, “the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” (139). In the case of Animal Farm, the coming together of human and pig represents how the revolution failed, since it was originally about getting rid of humans. The humans, the antithesis of their society, are reincarnated through Napoleon, the leader that promised them change, leaving the animal...

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