George Orwell Use Of Satire In Animal Farm

Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novel written based on the lives of a society of animals living on a Farm. Although the title of the book suggests the book is mainly about animals, the story is a much more in depth analysis of the workings of society in Communist Russia. George Orwell is using Animal Farm to give his audience a warning to show that even the strongest people can be corrupted by power and that unless humans change their ways, they could be swept away by the desire for power, and live in a world of misery. Many of the characters and events of Orwell's novel are based on those of the Russian Revolution. Manor Farm which later changes to Animal Farm, is a model of Russia, and Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the dominant

This novel can be a warning in several ways. Knowing the Russian Revolution, the audience would have an idea of how the novel would go along. Through the use of satire, in the novel Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin, Old Major represents Karl Marx, and Snowball represents Leon Trotsky. The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. “With their superior knowledge it was natural that they would take the leadership (2)”. After the pigs took the leadership, they came up with the seven commandments to keep their farm and the animals organized. With the knowledge of the pigs the farm started well and the animals were satisfied about the situation of their farm.

Although the seven commandments were made to bring peace and equality to the farm and the animals, Napoleon breaks the rules one by one. He begins to take the appeals and the milk for himself. Doing this, Squealer defends Napoleon saying that the “milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig” and that is it for their sake that they drink the milk and eat the apples (2). Since the animals were not too smart, they accepted Squealer’s idea. This shows that the leaders are trying to take advantage of the position they are

Later on Napoleon starts to trade with the neighbors and changes The Seven Commandments to his own benefit. At the end of the novel the animals start realizing that their leader Napoleon is starting to act just like Mr. Jone. To show this Napoleon starts drinking alcohol, sleeps on a bed, starts walking on two legs, trades with humans, and shares toasts with Mr. Pilkington. George Orwell wrote this book as an allegory, which means that the novel has a clear secondary meaning beneath its literal sense. Animal Farm is used to represent events and people that took place during the Russian revolution from