In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell there are two quotes that describe the story's lessons and describes the story itself. The first quote is “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” by George Santayana. The second quote is “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” by Edmund Burke. Both of these quotes describe exactly what happens to the animals in the story. The first quote says “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The animals didn't learn from their terrible past and so they just caused their past to repeat itself. When Mr. Jones owned the farm the animals were treated unfair, killed, and taken advantage of all for humans and the animals were getting nothing in return. This caused the animals to start a rebellion against the humans and make the farm their own. The animals won the Rebellion, but little did they know that their terriable past would repeat itself. After the Rebellion was won the pigs became the new leaders of the farm. Then as time past and the pigs started lying to the other animals and treating them unfair, but things got worse …show more content…
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. These quotes show what happened in the story. But it also is showing that things have consequences for what you do. Do you want to end up like the animals on animal farm? Of course you don't so listen to the quotes and the lessons in the story. Learn from your history and don't let your history repeat
Through use of language, the pigs appeal to the animals basic hopes and desires of a better life and a better future. They make others work extremely hard, while they themselves rest and unfairly reap most of the benefits of the work. For example, “Now comrades,... to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honor get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men do.” Later in chapter three, Squealer is sent to justify the pigs selfishness and to convince the animals that the pigs are working in their favor. He said, “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples...Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig...the whole management and organization of this farm depend on us.” This how the animals are persuaded to believe almost anything without question.
A wise boar, Old Major, expresses a dream of a world where animals live with no human oppression to the rest of the animals in Manor Farm. However, only three days after his speech, he dies, leaving three younger pigs to take over his place and lead the other animals toward Major’s dream. They create the Seven Commandments of Animalism, which set values against acting human-like, and paint them on the wall of the barn. One night, the animals succeed in rebelling against Mr. Jones, the owner of the farm. Initially, farming goes well after the rebellion. However, one of the power-hungry pigs, Napoleon, begins to run a totalitarian dictatorship with an eloquent pig, Squealer, by his side. He also trains puppies, whom he takes from their parents, into vicious guard dogs and uses them to enforce his plans. One by one, the Seven Commandments are broken and altered by Napoleon, who gradually acts more and more human-like. Finally, only one rule remains on the barn wall, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” (Orwell 133). Napoleon and the other pigs eventually walk upright, wear clothing, indulge in alcohol, and even sleep on beds (all of which were originally forbidden in the Seven Commandments), while the other animals work all day with little food. By the end of the book, the other farm animals can no longer tell the difference between the pigs and humans when other human farmers are invited over for dinner. “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” (Orwell 139).
...ls 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. The pigs have much power over the animals because they know that the animals can not realise that they are doing all the work. The animals trust that the pigs are telling the truth. Because of this, the pigs take full advantage of it and choose to slack off and take the animals trust for granted.
Consequently, Animal Farm was beyond repair. Due to animalism itself, the animals, and the corruption of the pigs, Animal Farm was collapsed. Everything the animals did to overcome humans, to gain equality and prosperity was done for nothing. Without a doubt, the collapse of Animal Farm was never engaged to happen, the pigs always did want power. Their power destroyed everything that Old Major asked of them. Animals for centuries to come, will never have the equality they deserve, due to a few rules which were not able to be attained.
...animals had the ability and many even had the knowledge and awareness of the truth behind the pig’s plan with the farm, but they chose to do nothing because of the constant fear they were living in. Jessie knew what the puppies could turn out to be if Napoleon took them away, and she had the power to stop it, but she chose not to. Muriel knew about the plans the pigs had, and she had the mental ability to stop them, but she chose not to. Boxer knew he was being overworked and that he could not live like that much longer, but his naivete did not allow him to stop them. Because of this, evil was able to succeed and fully capture the farm for itself, and there was nothing anybody could do after that. But what if the animals had done something? What if the pigs were exposed? Seems only logical to assume that things would have turned out a whole lot different.
The actions of the pigs express this theme by starting with good intentions, but slowly becoming more and more like what they were trying to avoid. In the beginning of the story Old Major gives a speech to the animals on the farm, and in this speech he mentions how cruel the humans are. During his speech Old Major uses Boxer the horse as an example when he says “You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds.” (Orwell 11). He then proceeds to tell the animals that once they revolt the cruelty will end, and at first it does, but soon the pigs begin to act more like humans. The pi...
The characters and events that George Orwell put in his novel Animal Farm, can be linked to the similar events and people associated with the Russian Revolution. People like Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky can be compared and represented by the 2 pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, in Orwell’s Animal Farm. By writing this novel, Orwell attempted to expose the truth behind the totalitarian-type government in Russia at that time. However, he did this in a discreet way by using animals to symbolize the different people that played a role in the Revolution.
George Orwell's goal in writing the novel Animal Farm was to portray the events surrounding the Russian revolution that took place in 1917. Orwell's tale of Animal Farm is seemingly a story of how a group of farmyard animals plot to overthrow their owner and seize control of the land. The novel seems to be a simple story, however Orwell wrote this book as an allegory, a story that has a clear secondary meaning beneath is literal sense. Everything in Animal Farm is used to represent people and events that took place during the Russian revolution from 1917-1939. Orwell chose to represent Russia's three famous leaders during this time with three pigs. Each three are drastically different and have dissimilar beliefs. Snowball representing Leon Trotsky, Napoleon by Josef Stalin and Old Major by Karl Marx. Orwell wrote this and many other books as warnings. The warning is that people must change their ways, or we are most surely doomed.
"Sometime the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the rebellion, when Jones expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now" (Orwell 130). The book Animal Farm is about a farm in which the animals residing within, take over. The smartest of the animals; the pigs start a communist society in which they trick the dumber animals that their lives have improved though in reality the animals are slaving away as before. They use the concept of revisionist history in order to change the rules around. Revisionist history is the reinterpretation of a historical record. The use of this in Animal Farm is in order to change the 7 commandments which contributes to the Animal's confusion. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, Orwell proves the quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" by George Santayana to relate to the animals in his novel and how their forgetfulness adds to Napolean's power and the animals suffering.
The pigs misused the power because they wanted to be in control and rule over others. All the other animals on the farm were mistreated because the pigs were in control of everything. Social class was very unfair. All the animals, except for the pigs, had to follow the commandments and work a lot. Language was also very important. Since all the pigs could read and the rest of the farm could not, the pigs verbally abused everyone on the farm. The animals symbolize how humans act when they are in positions of power and how people are
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a political satire of a totalitarian society ruled by a mighty dictatorship, in all probability a fable for the events surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1917. The animals of “Manor Farm” overthrow their human master after a long history of mistreatment. Led by the pigs, the farm animals continue to do their work, only with more pride, knowing that they are working for themselves, as opposed to working for humans. Little by little, the pigs become dominant, gaining more power and advantage over the other animals, so much so that they become as corrupt and power-hungry as their predecessors, the humans.
After the Animal Revolution the pigs take the initiative and place themselves in charge because of their claim of having higher intelligence. Over time this power begins to distort the basis of their revolt by recreating the same social situation they were previously in. “When the pigs takeover they claim that their goal is to preside a farm of equal animals, all working together to support one another, yet power quickly proves too much for a pig.” Though the animals originally took over the farm to increase the animal’s independence as a whole, because of the pig’s superiority they soon take the place of the humans further limiting their independence.
The beginning and the end of Animal Farm are very different. In the beginning all animals were equal the only difference between the pigs and the others were that one of them was the leader, Old Major. Old Major was a very old wise boar that had the best interest of the animals on the farm. He knew exactly how he wanted Animal Farm to carry on after he died and he was looked up to by everyone on the farm. After Old Major died the pigs were put in charge because they were the most educated of all. Napoleon and Snowball were the two that really took control and taught themselves how to read and write. They came up with the Seven Commandments that each animal shall follow.
The animals at the bottom of the society aren’t allowed to speak their opinion. The middle class workers get to share their thoughts but the leaders of the farm don’t listen to anyone. It was as if our government today had decided to take away the voting system and just said that Barack Obama was our leader until America collapsed or he was dead and that the people had no rights or say in what happened from this moment on. One example of the horrible treatment of the animals is when Squealer sends Boxer to his death. At the beginning of the book, before the animals even riot, this statement is made, "You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds" (6). Later on in the book Squealer tells all the animals that he is sending Boxer to the vet to become healthy and strong. When the truck comes to pick him up they realize not only did it not say Veterinarian on the side, it said ‘Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler’. Boxer worked harder than everyone else and the pigs still placed him on a level below themselves. This once again shows the pigs unequal treatment because they killed an innocent animal because he was beginning to challenge their way of life. The pigs continue to mistreat the animals and place themselves in a social class above all
Old Major chose a poor time to launch a rebellion. The dogs showed little care for the outcome of their pups’ upbringing. The hens’ independence could be seen as a bad action to the taking over of the farm. If the sheep were genetically smarter the story’s course could have been changed. Boxer’s tolerance of the pigs could have been a factor leading to his death. Benjamin’s negligence could have been the downfall of the farm. Lastly the remaining pigs selfishness is a contribution leading to the worse then average life of the farm animals. All these animals were responsible for the pigs’ dictatorship.