Miss Maudie Atkinson as an Asset to the Maycomb Community
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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.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how george orwell's animal farm was neglected by the pigs, especially napoleon, the self-proclaimed leader of the farm, who violated the seven commandments.
- Analyzes how the pigs manipulated the rules to gain power, which led to a vicious cycle of excuses for getting better treatment in the farm.
- Analyzes how the pigs destructed the ideals of animal farm by exploiting the animals for their own profit.
- Analyzes how squealer's demeanor suddenly changed. he fell silent for a moment, and his eyes darted suspicious glances from side to side before he proceeded.
- Analyzes how squealer's apprehensive demeanor before he proceeded to speak with the animals gave the impression of dishonesty and the disparaging mindset that the pigs kept regarding the other animals.
- Explains that the violation of the seventh commandment was the most destructive to the ideals of animal farm because it broke the pivotal principle of equality.
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- Explains that animal farm's guidelines weren't followed by all of the animals on the farm after jones was expelled. after exploring the farmhouse, everyone agreed that no animal would ever live there.
- Narrates how squealer convinced the pigs that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days.
- Analyzes how the animals were brainwashed by the pigs. they were shocked and horrified when they saw their leader walking erect on two legs.
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- Analyzes how the evolution of commandments shows true inequality throughout the book. napoleon and the pigs start to revise the laws separating themselves further up in the social class.
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- Compares the plot of the original book animal farm by george orwell and the movie. the pigs become dictators after a rebellion against farmers.
- Explains the differences between the movie and the novel. the movie has the same plot, while the book has all the time the writer needs to fill in the details.
- Explains that the novel is better than the movie because it has less mention of characters and their actions were different. the movie never had a horse named molly.
- Analyzes how the movie had several good parts of the novel, but it was not as detailed. the first main similarity was when the animals were singing beasts of england at the end of old major's speech.
- Compares the film's tyranny to that of farmer jones'. the pigs and farmers played poker and got into a fight.
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- Analyzes how george orwell's animal farm shows that with power comes corruption even if it may be in a different form. animals are like men because when they receive power, they are bound to become corrupt.
- Analyzes how animals force mr.jones out of the farm and the pigs fall to the temptation from the power that they gain. animalism teaches that all animals are equal yet in the napoleon led government only a bureaucratic few hold power
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- Analyzes how the views of equality have been forgotten in the living conditions of the animals. napoleon had told them that the truest happiness lies in working hard and living frugally.
- Explains that humans and pigs were so similar that it was hard to tell them apart. under the leadership of both groups, the animals were oppressed
- Concludes that animal farm is a true portrayal that power inevitably leads to corruption, no matter how virtuous the original goal was.
- Analyzes how modern society has changed from the 1940s when orwell wrote animal farm. the revolution and communist rule in russia that he critiqued through his allegorical novel has come and gone.
- Analyzes how the pigs, like the other animals, had a notable goal of ending the oppression that the animals of the farm faced through the revolution, but once they came into power, they changed.
- Explains that notable people of power who had virtuous goals and originally sought to use their position for good, have also fallen to the temptation that power brings.
- Analyzes how both orwell's pigs and the real life examples had good intentions originally and based their goals in the ideas of equality, freedom, and dignity.
- Explains why power does this to otherwise honorable people. people who gain this power are not used to having it thus they aren't sure how to handle their new responsibilities.
- Opines that in the case of real world corruption, most public officials have never had as much power over their faction of society as when they gained their new status.
- Concludes that orwell was right about how power can be corruptive. the pigs had noble desires which led them to fight along with their comrades during the revolution, but they ultimately let the influence of power change them.
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- Analyzes how orwell disturbs the fundamental idea that progress improves society as a whole.
- Analyzes how orwell demonstrates how by rewriting history, the pigs projected their own ways of thinking onto the other animals. removing the song from popular culture can be seen as an attempt to censor the thoughts of the masses.
- Analyzes how the missionaries distort native history in klee wyck. the colonial project led to the destruction of an entire culture.
- Analyzes how the colonial project silenced native voices by forcing them to adopt the english language.
- Analyzes how klee wyck records the ways in which native history is silenced and distorted, and how those in power appropriated the most important aspects of their culture.
- Analyzes how animal farm and klee wyck call attention to the ways by which history is re-written when told through the voices of those in power.
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- Analyzes how the animals in animal farm rebel against farmer jones in an attempt to create a better life, but the same problem resurfaces in the form of napoleon.
- Analyzes how napoleon's actions in the end of the book were ironic because the pigs were the ones who started the rebellion and they began to act like the humans they had expelled.
- Analyzes how napoleon neglects his so-called "comrades" and treats them like farmer jones. napoleon made sure the pigs never went hungry by giving them special food privileges.
- Analyzes how the conditions on animal farm became worse than those of the jones era. even with extra work being put in after hours the animals seemed to be getting along fine.
- Concludes that animal farm's ending is ironic because after all the trouble the animals went through to create a more fair and free environment they ended up in the same situation.
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- Analyzes how george orwell's animal farm contains two quotes that describe the story and its lessons. the first quote is "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
- Explains that the animals didn't learn from their terrible past and so they just caused their past to repeat itself.
- Explains that when the pigs started doing terrible things, none of the animals stopped them. no one had spoken against them when they did something wrong. the animals led themselves to their own doom.
- Opines that the quotes show what happened in the story, but it also shows that things have consequences for what you do.
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