Miss Maudie Atkinson as an Asset to the Maycomb Community

In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, we first started to see signs of trouble brewing in the farm when the pigs began assuming superiority. At the beginning of the novel, we saw Mr. Jones, the owner of the farm, as an atrocious human being who cruelly mistreated the animals and utilized them only for his profit. However, after the animals finally decided to revolt and overthrew Mr. Jones and the humans from the farm, we observed the pigs taking over the void that the humans left behind. From that point onward we started to see how the ideals of Animal Farm were slowly neglected by the pigs, especially Napoleon, the self-proclaimed leader of the farm, who started to mimic Mr. Jones and treated the animals in the same indifferent manner. The greatest examples of this negligence were the violations of the seven commandments. The commandments, written by the pigs, served as the basic principles of Animalism that all animals should follow. When the pigs started breaching these commandments, they also started viewing themselves as higher individuals than the other animals. By viewing themselves as superior to the others, they violated the seventh commandment that stated, “All animals are equal” (25). The violation of the seventh commandment was the most destructive to the ideals of Animal Farm because it breached the crucial principle of equality followed by their government.

The animals first witnessed the consequences of violating the seventh commandment when the pigs manipulated the rules to gain power. When Animal Farm first came into existence, the animals toiled and sweated while the pigs did not do any work but directed and supervised the others. Although the pigs justified their idleness because of their superior intelligence, it was...

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...he animals had endured from the farmers. Thus, the animals decided to form Animal Farm on the basis of equality. Unfortunately, the pigs served as a prime example of the saying, “History repeats itself” when they started exhibiting the same characteristics of the farmers. These actions were first displayed by the pigs early in the novel when they manipulated the animals into giving them undue privileges, using their higher intelligence as an excuse. Another instance of the pigs demonstrating attributes of humans was when they insensitively exploited the animals for their own profit. By displaying these aspects, the pigs presented superiority over the other animals. This narcissistic attitude proved to be the most detrimental to the ideals of Animal Farm because it defeated the whole purpose for which it was founded - all animals to be treated fairly and equally.