A Dystopian Society In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Everybody loves to imagine that the world they live is a perfect utopian world. A perfect utopian world would be a place where there is no hate, no fear, no pain or suffering and most importantly where everybody is equal. This is the part where the blind folds come off. In the world today, there is hate, pain, suffering and everybody is not equal. The world today is the definition of dystopia, the opposite of a perfect place. George Orwell first thought the world he lived was bliss, peaceful and equal but came to realize that it is not. He decided that he needed to show the world the truth, that is illustrated through Animal Farm, the book he decided to write. Animal Farm portrays a good example of a dystopian society throughout the book, being …show more content…

Fear brings out the worst in everybody, it is what keeps person’s mouth closed and makes them go along with the crowd. In Animal Farm, the animals feared their leader Napoleon, checking off one of the characteristics of a dystopian society. One late afternoon , Napoleon called the animals on the farm for a gathering. During the gathering four pigs confessed their crime of helping Snowball destroy the windmill, “when they had finished their confession the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess” (Orwell 56). The animals were shocked and scared of Napoleon because of what he did to the other animals for confessing their crimes. Napoleon is showing what would happen if they rebelled against him, making the animals fear him. If the animals did not fear him, they would have rebelled against Napoleon but that did not happen indicating they were certainly afraid of Napoleon because of his power. This fear and intimidating power is once reminded of how they feared Mr. Jones before and then Napoleon. Not to mention, one afternoon the pigs had a meeting with the humans. The animals decided to sneak in and see what it was about but soon after there was a “violent quarrel” (Orwell 95). As the animals watched the pigs and humans shouting back and forth, “the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but it was impossibly to say which was which” (Orwell 95). The animals are shocked when they came realize that Napoleon and the rest of the pigs are just like the humans implying that they should fear Napoleon and the other pigs because they are no better than Mr. Jones and the other humans. They realized that the fear they once had for Mr. Jones should be the same for Napoleon and now it was too late to do anything about it. Hinting, there was never a rebellion because they never achieved

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