George Orwell's Animal Farm

The sun rises. It’s a new day, soon to be filled with hard work. Animals are working hard, overcoming many difficulties by mere determination and work. But it all falls back to the way it was, going absolutely nowhere. In the book Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, this is exactly what happens. The animals work to tremendous extents, especially the horse named Boxer, but their hard work gets them nothing. They give their blunt work for years on a windmill that falls down twice, they work past specific difficulties in order to bring in the harvest that eventually leads them to lower food rations and, specifically, Boxer sacrifices his health for the sake of hard work to only be killed, as if he was nothing. Because the animals work hard to overcome struggles and difficulties but receive nothing good from it, it is clear that the theme in Animal Farm is that working hard can sometimes go nowhere.

In the Animal Farm, the animals give their blunt work to the cause of the windmill for years, but their work goes nowhere. On page 61, Orwell describes the work towards the windmill as “a slow, laborious process. Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry.” But then, after all their hard work when the windmill was nearly complete, a great storm came. In the morning, “The windmill was in ruins” (Orwell 69). This shows that the animal’s hard work was all for nothing. They toiled over the windmill just to lose it in a storm. Because the animals work long and hard on the windmill, but get nothing of it, it is clear that the theme in Animal Farm is that working hard can sometimes go nowhere.

In the Animal Farm, the animals work hard at getting past specific struggles for the harvest,...

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...itten by George Orwell, the theme is working hard can sometimes go nowhere because the animals’ blunt work and attempts at overcoming their struggles seem to go nowhere. The animals work to tremendous extents, especially the horse named Boxer, but their hard work gets them nothing. They give their blunt work for years on a windmill that falls down twice, they work past specific difficulties in order to bring in the harvest that eventually comes to lower food rations and, specifically, Boxer sacrifices his health for the sake of hard work to only be killed, as if he was nothing. Because the animals work hard to overcome struggles and difficulties but receive nothing good from it, it is clear that the theme in Animal Farm is that working hard can sometimes go nowhere.

Works Cited

Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. New York, NY: Signet Classic, 1996. Print.