1984 Vs Animal Farm Essay

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In the year of 1945, George Orwell wrote the novel Animal Farm. Just nine years later, his work was adapted into a well known cartoon movie. With Orwell born in 1903, his childhood consisted was full of battle; World War I. Later on in life, he became a British political novelist and essayist by earning his education at a series of private schools. George Orwell wrote two of his greatest anti-totalitarian novels: Animal Farm and 1984. These two pieces of work formed the basis of his reputation in life, but sadly he did not live for long. Animal Farm was created to portray the history of Soviet communism, with the characters based on Communist leaders. George Orwell used this cartoon movie to demonstrate the historical event, known as the Russian …show more content…

Jones. He was an old, spiteful, and drunken man, who abused his animals is a very cruel way. However, the animals did not put up with such misery. One day, Old Major, who was the leader of the animals in Manor Farm called together a meeting, which was the start of their “revolution.” They were informed about his dream of the resistance against human beings. There was a song in which started the revolution and all the animals joined in and sang. Since Old Major was extremely old, he died just a few days later, and therefore, new animals needed to step in; Snowball and Napoleon. After many months of rebelling against their farmer, they finally broke loose from him. The animals created a new society with the seven commandments as the foundation. “All animals are equal” and “Four legs good, two legs bad” were part of the seven commandments. Snowball was a lighthearted and cheery pig, but on the other hand, Napoleon was the big and brutal pig. He wanted to “fight for leadership” and grow to be the ruler of the farm. After many horrid and harsh events that Animal Farm experienced, Napoleon was indeed considered a dictator by all the other animals. With anything that he came in contact with, they were eaten up and even slaughtered, as Napoleon did not have any pity. In the end of the movie, the animals started to walk on two legs, acting like human beings, thus changing the old saying into “Four legs good, two legs

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