Animal Farm Narcissism

685 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Social commentary on animal farm

Torture gives leaders a lasting grip on their country, but it isn’t quite as effective as other methods. An example to this, Uzbekistan. The government induces child labor in which 2.7 million children are forced to work in hard condition instead of going to school. Not only that, Uzbekistan could not break out of poverty and found that their agricultural output has diminished. Similarly, the book Animal Farm by George Orwell portrays the exact situation. Orwell suggests that narcissism and cruelty lead to loss of freedom and equality in a society. Narcissism leads to the loss of freedom and equality because self obsession causes a negligence of everyone besides the one affected by it. Napoleon was only interested into trivial matters that …show more content…

This is shown when the animals witnessed a shocking event when many other animals confessed. “They did not know which was more shocking–the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed.”(93) Even if an animal were to speak out, the dangers and targeting would overcast the benefits of seeing one less dead animal. As time progressed, the more obvious that the pigs are the most dominant. “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters.” It wasn’t strange when all pigs carried whips. That moment was the sign of a complete dominant take-over by the pigs. A whip is deemed to be an instrument of dominance, torture, and persecution. Mr. Jones and his men utilize whips to control, punish and torment the animals. It has turned into a symbol of man's abuse and his way of showing animal's subservience. It is one of the first things the creatures destroyed after the Rebellion, causing to show it’s utmost disdain it brought to the animals. Yet when brought back, no animal even batted an eye. This shows that the animals were so brainwashed that they forgot the principle ideology that was brought on after the revolution. This shows resemblance between the pigs, and what the animals first saw as cruel

Show More
Related

  • Symbolism In Kindred

    882 Words  | 2 Pages

    The men who use whips in the novel, Tom, Rufus, and Jake are all men that the slaves are afraid of. These guys are selfish and bitter and they use violence (whippings) for punishments, to hurt slaves, and even for pleasure. In the South, a white man with a whip often embodies evilness and anger. The functionality of the whip makes for slow and painful torture of the slaves. These whips are able to kill people, accept instead of killing very quickly, they kill very slowly and more painfully than other methods of killing. Whippings clearly show the white man had all the power, and that no one would be able to challenge them because of their desire for violence. All the white man wanted was to show his superiority, and with harsh whippings he surely

    Read More

  • Who Run the Farm? Pigs

    1438 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...ls around to do more work while they lie on their backs and drink because the animals are too stupid to realize that they are being treated unfairly. Because the pigs have advantages when it comes to being smart, they take advantage of the fact that the animals have no idea whats actually going on. Though the pigs rarely do anything, they get more portions of food. Towards the end of the book, the animals see that while they are working very hard for the farm, the pigs are inside drinking and talking with humans. Though they may not realise it, they are not treated equally. The pigs have much power over the animals because they know that the animals can not realise that they are doing all the work. The animals trust that the pigs are telling the truth. Because of this, the pigs take full advantage of it and choose to slack off and take the animals trust for granted.

    Read More

  • George Orwell's Animal Farm

    552 Words  | 2 Pages

    The actions of the pigs express this theme by starting with good intentions, but slowly becoming more and more like what they were trying to avoid. In the beginning of the story Old Major gives a speech to the animals on the farm, and in this speech he mentions how cruel the humans are. During his speech Old Major uses Boxer the horse as an example when he says “You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds.” (Orwell 11). He then proceeds to tell the animals that once they revolt the cruelty will end, and at first it does, but soon the pigs begin to act more like humans. The pi...

    Read More

  • Animal Farm

    1206 Words  | 3 Pages

    The history of the human race follows a plot detailing the struggles and triumphs of various individuals with the concepts of power and control. In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, these elaborate concepts are further explored through various characters such as the shire boar, Napoleon. Napoleon’s ability to exercise control over the animals derives from his capability to indoctrinate them with his partial ideologies. Napoleon then further clasps his power by his avail of expert power throughout the novel. Finally, the excessive and abusive use of coercive power, secures Napoleon’s control over the animals. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm Napoleon assumes the reins of power over the animals and controls them by means of physiological manipulations.

    Read More

  • Use Of Language In Animal Farm, By George Orwell

    1605 Words  | 4 Pages

    These commandments are meant to represent an “unaltered law” (15), but after the pigs began to rise in power, their superiority in language allowed them to change it to their benefit. At the height of his reign, Napoleon established his position of power by changing the commandment “all animals are equal” (15) to “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” (90). At its core, this change is an abuse of language in order to manipulate other animals’ thoughts. Initially, the commandment states that everyone is equal which allows the other animals to feel acknowledged, but then it contradicts itself by saying a hypothetical “some” are more equal than others. Although not explicitly stated, it implies that the pigs identify as the “some which are more equal than others” (90). This implication leads to the notion that the pigs who are in the ‘some’ category are to be considered a different class compared to the animals in the ‘all’ category, and as such the pigs’ position as more equal provides them more power over the lesser

    Read More

  • Abuse of Power in George Orwell’s Animal Farm

    1350 Words  | 3 Pages

    The pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm use specific laws, use unknown vocabulary and excruciating detail, implement scare tactics, and create and manipulate law to successfully attain the other animal’s trust, acquire certain luxuries unavailable to most animal, and establish themselves as the dictators of a totalitarian-like society. Through using detail, unknown vocabulary, specific laws, and scare tactics, the pigs acquire the ability to drink alcohol, sleep on beds, eat and drink the milk and apples, destroy Snowball’s credibility, and establish a trust between themselves and the other animals. From Orwell’s Animal Farm, one realizes how leaders with absolute power use carefully manipulated language to abuse their power.

    Read More

  • Cruelty in animal Farm

    1271 Words  | 3 Pages

    After the Animal Revolution the pigs take the initiative and place themselves in charge because of their claim of having higher intelligence. Over time this power begins to distort the basis of their revolt by recreating the same social situation they were previously in. “When the pigs takeover they claim that their goal is to preside a farm of equal animals, all working together to support one another, yet power quickly proves too much for a pig.” Though the animals originally took over the farm to increase the animal’s independence as a whole, because of the pig’s superiority they soon take the place of the humans further limiting their independence.

    Read More

  • Tyranny in Animal Farm, by Geopge Orwell

    1198 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...hing a tyrannical society. Another factor contributing to this process, which has not been mentioned in this paper yet, is that animals that were capable of seeing wrongness in the actions of the leaders did not express their opinions publicly, when they had a chance. They did not want interfere in the affairs of the farm because they thought there would be no use out of their actions. Another reason for their unconcerned behavior towards the affairs of the farm might be that they were merely disinterested in obtaining the power and leading the farm in which they would have been engaged had they asserted their positions publicly. That is why those animals decided to stay aloof without trying to prevent injustices that were happening. These all factors promoted the tyranny to emerge in the society that had meant to be just.

    Read More

  • Animal Farm Satire Essay

    586 Words  | 2 Pages

    Animal Farm is an allegoric moral satire by George Orwell that depicts the struggles and conflicts of the Russian revolution. The novel can be said to be an intriguing child’s book in which animals could talk and express their opinions. It can likewise be said to be an evaluation of the communist regime, which took place in Russia under the rule of Joseph Stalin. The reader comes across a plethora of interesting characters from whichever perspective it is looked at from, especially the pigs who possess the traits of human behavior. In this essay, I intend to look at how Orwell depicts Napoleon, one of the major characters.

    Read More

  • Pre Civil War Slavery Was A Cruel Crime

    499 Words  | 1 Pages

    Some masters were so evil that they would whip their slaves, even when the slaves had no fault in doing wrong. They would whip hard and tear up parts of slaves’ backs, shoulders, and necks until the point of incredible pain. It would also happen time and time again because slave masters would constantly search for offenses they thought a slave had committed. Sometimes, if a slave refused a whipping, the master would just shoot him. The master’s constant torment of the slaves made it physically challenging for the slaves to do their daily work (Douglass,

    Read More

  • Language in Animal Farm

    673 Words  | 2 Pages

    Through use of language, the pigs appeal to the animals basic hopes and desires of a better life and a better future. They make others work extremely hard, while they themselves rest and unfairly reap most of the benefits of the work. For example, “Now comrades,... to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honor get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men do.” Later in chapter three, Squealer is sent to justify the pigs selfishness and to convince the animals that the pigs are working in their favor. He said, “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples...Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig...the whole management and organization of this farm depend on us.” This how the animals are persuaded to believe almost anything without question.

    Read More

  • The Progression to a Totalitarian Nightmare in Animal Farm by George Orwell

    962 Words  | 2 Pages

    The author of the novel “Animal Farm” George Orwell once wrote “every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been against totalitarianism”. Similarly “Animal Farm” also highlight about the totalitarianism. As all other revolutions, the revolution of animal farm also arises with the dream for a better and more perfect society which transfers in to a totalitarian night mare with the urge for the power in the minds of animals, who symbolizes the people who live in society. “Animal Farm is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism during the Stalin era. In the novel Orwell uses pigs to represent the ruling class and throughout the story he represent how the ruling class people spread and improve their power employing pigs as the characters.

    Read More

  • There Is No Power without Hypocrisy

    745 Words  | 2 Pages

    In these scenes Napoleon finally has made himself indistinguishable from a human and has begun to tyrannize his own kind, which is exactly what Old Major warned them of in his speech: “And remember also that in fighting Man, we must not come to resemble him” (6). Works Cited Orwell, George. A. A. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954. Print.

    Read More

  • Theme Of Corruption In Animal Farm

    846 Words  | 2 Pages

    In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a main theme is that power corrupts those who possess it. A definition of corruption is,“dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.” Orwell develops this idea through the character Napoleon in various ways. Looking back in the book, the animal’s rebellion quickly turned political and revolved around, “Leader, Comrade Napoleon (Orwell 81)”. The power Napoleon possed was executed through lies and selfishness, aided by the lack of intellectual ability in the other animals. The corruption of Napoleon’s power is displayed when he favors himself, along with the other pigs, and eventually the dogs, who all get better rations of food compared to the other animals. Another main demonstration of how power corrupts Napoleon is how he separates himself from the other animals on the farm, displaying his feelings if superiority to the other animals. A ceremonial nature develops towards Napoleon. The last way power corrupts Napoleon is how he acts recklessly; killing other animals and lying about

    Read More

  • The Pigs' Intellectual Exploitation in Animal Farm

    944 Words  | 2 Pages

    In this novel, an intellectual increase in the exploitation of the animals started with little things such as the eating of the apples for the pigs' health. Then the animals couldn't make an informed decision, which led to their bad decision making. Next, Squealer would constantly tell the animals of the great things that they accomplished now that the pigs had gotten rid of Jones. After that, the pigs used the animals' lack of memory to their advantage by changing laws and telling the animals that the rules that were on the wall, had been there forever.

    Read More

More about Animal Farm Narcissism

Open Document