Animal Farm Metaphors

A singer writes a song, performs it, and it becomes popular. Another singer performs the same song, but in a different style. This completely changes the song’s message, tone, and possibly its idea. The song keeps changing more and more as it’s covered. This really represents Animal Farm written by George Orwell, and the character’s changes throughout the story. In this novel, Orwell uses a farm to represent the very famous Russian Revolution. The animals are sick and tired of being told what to do, and being controlled by humans. One day, they fire their lazy, always drunk owner, Mr. Jones, because they want to live a life of their own. There are definitely many many struggles and hardships along the way, but the animals, being the clever

George Orwell explores many different ideas and techniques that play a role throughout the entire story. Many metaphors are used throughout the story, in order to provide context. The reader may not know how significant these metaphors really are, but they really help play a role in the story. Descriptions also come to play starting at the way beginning of the story to create the setting and also get the reader predicting about how these descriptions are impactful and how they will show up throughout the entire story. George Orwell also has very important dialogue and quotes that show the character’s motivation and provide context. These quotes are said by many different characters, that definitely impact the story as a whole. All these techniques show how the characters changed throughout the story and the impacts they all made.

George Orwell explores the technique of metaphors throughout the story to do many things. These great metaphors provide context throughout the story, and also as a whole show the character’s changes.

Right on the first page, the reader gets a good description of the farm. “MR. JONES, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.” (Page 1). The reader can already get a good impression of Mr. Jones from this great description. It also gets the reader predicting by telling some qualities of Mr Jones, and how he is drunk. The reader may be able to predict that he will not be very successful on this farm. Throughout the story, many other great descriptions come to play. One example is just a simple part. This part is explaining what the animals do throughout the Spring and Summer. George Orwell simply could have just done a sentence or two about this, but no. He went into a full description about this. “Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks