Examples Of Violence In Animal Farm

Violence in Animal Farm

The novel “Animal Farm” is written by George Orwell. Animal Farm fits in the category of an allegory or a fable. The novel is an allegory because it demonstrated the Russian revolution that took place but in a different manner. Some animals in the novel represented some of the characters that were a part of the historic revolution. The novel is also fable because the author George Orwell portrayed the animals in a human way. For example, Mr. Jones portrayed as Czar Nicholas II, Napoleon portrayed as Joseph Stalin, Snowball as Leon Trotsky, Squealer as Propaganda department of Lenin’s government and The Dogs portrayed as KGB (Secret Police). The animals in the novel would talk, having human like meetings and disagree with one and fight. In the novel Animal Farm, violence or the threat of violence did frequently occur. Firstly, Napoleon used the Dogs against the other animals, Napoleon would punish the animals by cutting their food rations and the animals were treated with cruelty.

If the hens didn’t want to produce eggs, Napoleon decided he would starve them and not give them food until the hens changed their minds and did what Napoleon had told them to do. This incident occurred when Napoleon had a contract with Whymper for giving him four hundred eggs every week, just so the price of that can pay for the grains and meals. “He ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped.” (Orwell 51). The quotation explains that Napoleon acted ruthlessly and didn’t have mercy on the hens until they gave up and decided to give him all the eggs, even though in this small rebellion against him, nine hens had died in the meantime. In addition, for any other animals that helped the hens’, Napoleon decided those animals would have their food rations cut and would be executed. “-and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.” (Orwell