Examples Of Dramatic Irony In Animal Farm

n 1945, author George Orwell published the allegorical fable Animal Farm. It did not have a universally positive response. Mostly because the reviewers think that the animals were not all consistent with their inspirations from the real world. But what made the reviewers think that? In Animal Farm, the animals want equality and freedom, but is not achieved due to the nature of their human oppressors. The animals are inspired by the prize boar and rebel, sending their humans oppressors off.. The pigs on the farm become the dictators, turning the farm they live on into a utopia. But over time, they do practices similar to that of their former masters, bringing the situation of the farm back to where it was originally as a dystopia. A literal

One example is when Boxer falls and is seriously injured; the pigs seem to be sending him to a hospital, but what the reader knows is that Boxer really was sent to a slaughterhouse. Another example is when Squealer gets knocked out while rewriting the Seven Commandments with a can of paint and a ladder nearby. Dramatic irony goes hand in hand with the theme of corruption because of the actions done by the pigs, and how the reader is aware of what's going on, but the other animals do not. These examples of dramatic irony are valid because of the purpose of dramatic irony; it is to build tension and suspense for both the reader and the characters in the story. Symbolism on the other hand, does

Some parodies throughout the fable include the changing of the seven commandments to the point where it accommodates the corrupt ruler of animal farm (Napoleon). Eventually, the seven commandments morph into one commandment: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” (pg. 133). This makes the pigs more tyrannical than Farmer Jones; cupidity for power has bested equality. Mr. Orwell’s fable morphs into a cynical expose of the depravity of all living things; the brutality of the tough and strong over the feeble and