Animal Farm Research Paper

The animals on the Farm fear the results of the very revolution that they started. The Farm was governed by three different systems after the revolution. The transition of governing systems in Animal Farm was from a Monarchy with Mr. Jones in power, to Marxism presented by old Major but corrupted after the animals take power, to Communism with Napoleon in power and owning the farm, and finally to Totalitarianism with Napoleon in power and the pigs and his hounds suppressing the other animals and forcing them to work. Marxism is the political, economic, and social theories developed by Karl Marx (“Marxism” 1). Communism is “a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common” (“Communism” 1). Totalitarianism

One example of this is the singing of the song “Beasts of England”. “The song “Beasts of England” prophesies is one in which animals will no longer be subject to man’s cruel domination and will finally be able to enjoy the fruits of their labors. …unwavering belief in this lofty rhetoric … prevents the common animals from realizing the gap between reality and their envisioned utopia” (“Animal” 5-6). This song embodied the spirit of the revolution, which makes the animals both excited and ready to fight for what they think will be their freedom. The animals “woke at dawn as usual, and suddenly remembering the glorious thing that had happened, they all raced out into the pasture together. A little way down the pasture there was a knoll that commanded a view of most of the farm. The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. Yes, it was theirs — everything that they could see was theirs! In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement” (Orwell 40). After the successful revolution “Old Major's utopian dream seems to have come true. Orwell describes the animals as a single group, indicating their equality” (“Animal” 3). The revolution which was foretold by

One example of this is when “the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters. It did not seem strange to learn that the pigs had bought themselves a wireless set, were arranging to install a telephone …It did not seem strange when Napoleon was seen strolling in the farmhouse garden with a pipe in his mouth — no, not even when the pigs took Mr. Jones’s clothes out of the wardrobes and put them on, Napoleon himself appearing in a black coat, ratcatcher breeches, and leather leggings, while his favourite sow appeared in the watered silk dress which Mrs. Jones had been used to wear on Sundays” (Orwell 133-134). “The post-Rebellion misery of the farm animals serve his critique of social inequality and the mistreatment of workers. They also make a pointed statement about humans’ abuse of animals” (“Animal” 6). This showed that the pigs were just as bad as the humans and that by the time the other animals figured it out, it was too