Are All People Really Equal? In this world, having power is something to be satisfied with. Not everybody will be able to have power in certain circumstances. However, when you have power, even if it’s the smallest quantity, you are able to do whatever you may like. You’re able to control others, and change things to the way you would like them. In the book Animal Farm, this is exactly what happened. The animals took over and one group in specific started changing things and telling everybody what to do. Although, all people are not equal because they are not educated, they are not capable, are not inspired. In today’s society, there are laws. Laws that should never be broken or changed. Every year, another law has been added, changed, or …show more content…
These commandments were laws upon the farm that were made when the animals took over. The last commandment says all animals are equal, but, in this story, that is not the case. The power on the farm goes from Mr. Jones to the animals when they take over the farm. Eventually, the power falls into a special animals hands, Napoleon. Napoleon was once just a normal pig just like all of the other pigs on the farm. Napoleon started taking tasks into his own hands and this, somehow, gave him all the power on the farm without the animals fully recognizing what he has done. Napoleon starts having other animals work more so he could work less, telling all the animals what their job was, started changing the rules, and took other animals’ ideas. The laws change because Napoleon becomes friends with humans and the pigs start walking on two legs, they have animals as enemies, the pigs started wearing clothes, the pigs started sleeping in a bed, Napoleon started drinking alcohol, the pigs began executing other animals, and they go against Snowball. The animals broke all of the commandments in this
The animals were on an emotional high for the next few days. They set up rules, including the seven commandments, and decided to make Snowball and Napoleon (pigs) the leaders. The animals had meetings every Sunday to discuss and vote on what should happen, and the work schedule for the following week. Every single time an idea was brought up Snowball and Napoleon would disagree. This went on for a year. Finally, at one of the meetings Napoleon and 9 dogs jumped Snowball, and chased him off of the farm. From then on the farm became a dictatorship, not a republic as the animals had dreamed of before the rebellion. Napoleon lied to the animals a lot, but none of them were smart enough to realize it. He planted false memories in the animals heads, and manipulated them. He stole food from them and blamed it on Snowball. Then he started to go against the seven commandments, but none of the animals could remember the seven com...
Under the pigs supervision, animals change the name of the farm to “Animal Farm” and adopt “Animalism” along with “Seven Commandments of Animalism” which are painted on the wall. At first Rebellion seemed to be a success, they harvest and even try to build a windmill, but then the animals realize that as they received less and less food, pigs got fatter and fatter. Napoleon’s leadership becomes a dictatorship. Pigs break the Seven Commandments by their will. For example, one night pigs become drunk and the Commandment, "No animals shall drink alcohol" is changed to, "No animal shall drink
He came to power because he was a pig and pigs were considered the smartest in the farm according to the book. He had to get rid of snowball another pig because he saw him as a competition. The actions that Napoleon took to the destroy freedom and equality was because he gave more rights and freedom to the pigs than any other animal in the farm. Napoleon canceled all Sunday meetings and made all decisions on his own. He also weakened the equality by acting like a human day by day him and his pigs will sleep in beds and would drink. He destroyed The freedom from all the animals by making them all work hard on the windmill they made. The window clean kept his power he was by making sure no one would ever rebel against him. The way he did this was by impacting fear and every animal, he kept his power mostly through propaganda. He also raised the dogs to intimidate and eventually kill the animals who opposed or thought about opposing Napoleon. Napoleon's true goal was to have absolute power in the animal farm, Napoleon is nothing more than just an evil side of Old Major
”(Page 33, chapter5) Thus, this proves that Napoleon is an obnoxious pig because just because he was against Snowball’s windmill idea he urinated all over his work so he could get his way. Comprehension 3. If there had been one more chapter in Animal Farm, I think it would go as follows: Weeks pass by and the animals still could not get over the fact of what they had witnessed looking through the window. They felt betrayed and exhausted and had lost hope for Animal Farm.
The government that is associated on the animal farm was unsuccessful. The power that is required to pull off the revolution corrupts the leaders. Their greed and thirst for absolute control lead them to create an unsustainable and bankrupt society. They didn't actually produce the goods and provide the infrastructure necessary to run a stable society. Napoleon goes ballistic with power, slaughtering every animal who didn't agree with him. Eventually running the population down and making the farm less efficient. The pigs contradict every commandment established for Animalism, becoming more and more like humans and become intoxicated with their power over the farm. The animals become more like slaves. They're treated poorly, are forcefully worked with no beneficial value to them, purely for the personal gain of the leaders.
What is power? Power means the strength and the right given of controlling anyone else. However, when too much power is given to someone, dictatorship cannot be avoided. In the book “Animal Farm”, George Orwell used a lot of events happened on the farm to illustrate that how did the ‘animalism’ turn into “totalitarianism” and well defined the sentence “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”, which also reflects how the society was like at that time. Therefore, in order to find out the reason why George Orwell wrote the story, this essay will talk about how power is abused and the effect on other "comrades" by using several events and the examples of language features used in the story.
Napoleon stops making appearances to the other animals and makes a deal with Mr. Whymper to sell 400 eggs a week. Napoleon also gets some animals to confess of wrong doings and then “makes examples of them,” by killing them.
Napoleon, the chief pig, eventually used force to carry out his orders in Animal Farm. His attack dogs drove Snowball away, and inspired the fear necessary to gain total control of the Farm, as these beasts left the animals “… too amazed and frightened to speak.” His foresight to train these dogs, and his use of force, slowly move Animal Farm away from its original utopian equality and more towards Napoleon’s totalitarian ideas.
First, he starts sleeping in the bed in the Manor house. Squealer, a very persuasive pig, justifies Napoleon’s actions by saying that anywhere an animal sleeps is a bed. One day, Clover, a mare, has Muriel, a goat, read her the commandments, and she notices that one commandment has been changed to “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.” Clover can not exactly remember what the old commandment used to be, and does not question the change. Another commandment changes to “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess,” when the pigs start to drink alcohol. Later, Napoleon breaks another commandment when he holds a mass killing of animals, who confess to be traitors. The commandment then changes to “No animal shall kill another animal without cause.” The pigs also ban the animals from singing Beasts of
From the very beginning, Napoleon started breaking the commandment that stated all animals are equal. He had all the milk and apples set aside for the pigs. He put forth the idea that the pigs depended on these things for survival, and that it was in the interest of the entire farm that they be set aside for them. The others were convinced by Squealer’s arguments that
Napoleon was a leader who led with an iron fist. A fist he used to secretly abuse his fellow animal. He began by raising several ferocious dogs to aid him in enforcing his rules, laws, and expectations. Using them, he abruptly ended Snowballs reign by using the dogs to exile him from the farm. Shortly after, he halted the construction of the windmill. More often than not he would cleverly work his way around the seven commandments by altering them to his pleasure. For example, 'Now animal shall drink alcohol to excess.'; Or 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.'; Napoleon grounded the rations of each and every animal. The farm slowly fell into a dark abyss with every wretched move Napoleon made.
ANIMAL FARM About 80 per-cent of all the animals on Animal Farm completely followed the seven commandments. The other 20 per-cent of the animals would rarely follow all the rules and they were often treated like a piece of dirt. All the animals on Animal Farm were treated differently according to their social status, where in today’s society everyone should treat everyone equally. The characters in Animal Farm had many diverse characteristics, some of the animals were powerful, stupid, and sneaky First of all, Napoleon is a huge Berkshire boar and he clearly is the most powerful of all the animals. He was able to take complete leadership of the farm because he secretly trained the dogs to attack Snowball. George Orwell writes, “ ‘Never mind the milk, comrades!’ cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. ‘That will be attended to, the harvest is more important’ (817).&nb describe Napoleon as a leader, “ ‘long live Comrade Napoleon’ ” (846). All the animals on the farm (no matter what Napoleon did to them) would treat him as a powerful leader and whatever he said they would do. Often Orwell stirs up controversy about the rebellion, “ ‘forward in the name of the rebellion. ‘Long live Animal Farm!’ ‘Long live Comrade Napoleon!’ ‘Napoleon is always right.’
A good example of equality in Animal Farm is when there is a discussion of who gets what resources; “the whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over you welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples” (Orwell, 52). Is it considered equality if the pigs take all the apples and milk, and because they do more work does that mean they deserve more than the other animals? This is the question the reader leaves behind. This question is one of our present day society as well. However in the situation in Animal Farm the pigs are clearly manipulating the other animals, therefore that concludes that all the animals are not getting an equal opportunity to use the resources as the
When Major dies the animals’ end up rebelling against their human master managing to overthrow him. After the rebellion the most outspoken pig, Napoleon, manages to become the leader along with Snowball, who is the most eloquent pig. Napoleon figures out a way to get Snowball kicked out of the farm so he can be the leader himself. Napoleon is a back-stabbing traitor. He becomes just like the humans and dominates over the other animals. Napoleon breaks the laws but since he has the other animals in such a strong hold they do not seem to care. Napoleon is the evil character in this novel. He is almost like an animal version of Adolph Hitler because he is doing wrong behind everyone’s back and all the animals still love him but only because they have no idea what Napoleon is really about.
Imagine a world where every person is equal: everyone has the same possessions, everyone shows respect to each other, no one kills anyone else, and no authority rises over others to give dictating commands. It sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? George Orwell’s haunting book Animal Farm shows, however, the near impossibility it is to make that idea a reality. In this fairy tale, a group of oppressed farm animals revolt against the tyrannical bonds of their evil master Farmer Jones, chase him off the farm, and attempt to make a society based on the idea listed above. But instead of having this incredible society, the pigs decide to make one instead where they are the ultimate authority.