Animal Farm Essay

The first quotation listed describes an event in the novel where two animals, Snowball and Napoleon, fight over the future of the animal run farm. Napoleon, who emerged throughout the novel as a corrupt opportunist, sensed a threat in his political opponent, Snowball, and used his private police force to attack and drive Snowball off of the farm. After the attack, Napoleon stood with his private police force and began to declare new laws to be made on his behalf. This event contributes to George Orwell’s message about tyranny by developing ideas of socialism through the eyes of Napoleon and the farm. This event in the novel is very important because it represented the early warning signs of socialism and tyranny on the farm. In other words,

When the common animals look inside of the room both the humans and the pigs began to shout in anger. Looking between the humans and the pigs, the common animals found no difference between both species. Since the beginning of the animal run farm, a common theme of “Animalism” was established. “Animalism” was the concept that animals were the superior species over humans, that all animals were equal, and that animals shall not act, dress, or live akin to a human. These laws were often described as the Seven Commandments in the novel. Some of these commandments were, “ Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy... No animal shall sleep in a bed... No animal shall kill any other animal…[and] All animals are equal.” These commandments that were created at the beginning of the novel, became violated and tampered with at the end of the novel. By the last chapter, the pigs, who are the government of the farm, started to arrange deals and trade with humans, started to act akin to a human, wore clothes, drank liquor, arranged executions, and established a socialist government where pigs are more superior than the common animals. This quotation is important because the common animals did not recognize the magnitude of how alike both species had become, until the last paragraph (the quotation listed) when the animals became aware of this