George Orwell's Animal Farm

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The plot of Animal Farm is that Old Major has a dream of a governing just for animals with no human assistance. The farm holds a meeting and Old Major tells them about his idea Animalism. After he tells the animals his idea and passes away a couple days later. Then, Old Major’s disciples Snowball and Napoleon started leading for the preparations for the rebellion. The determination of the revolution is to create a nondiscriminatory society made by animals. Animalism is founded on seven commandments such as “Four legs good, two legs bad” and most importantly: "All animals are equal” (Orwell 21; ch.2). After the animals run Mr. Jones out of the farm they change the name Manor Farm to "Animal Farm”. Once Napoleon and Snowball take over Squealer …show more content…

Jones reappears to take back his farm, and the animals overthrow him in the victory known as the “Battle of the Cowshed”. As the story progresses Snowball and Napoleon struggle with the power over the farm. Snowball purposes a windmill to help the farm and Napoleon rejects the idea. Then, Napoleon takes puppies to go teach them about Animalism, but later the reader finds out that he was using the dogs to his own advantage by making them his guard dogs. Continuing, with the idea of the windmill, Snowball makes a speech at the farm meeting and Napoleon gets the dogs to run Snowball out of the farm. After that, Napoleon gains full leadership of the farm. Boxer the noblest and dedicated worker starts to say "Napoleon is always right." (Orwell 48; ch.5). One day as it rains the windmill falls over and Napoleon blames Snowball thinking he came back for vengeance. So defending his farm Napoleon sends his attack dogs to kill Snowball. Unfortunately, we later discover that Napoleon starts to behave like a human by drinking whiskey and making trades with other human neighbors near the farm. But in the seven commandments of Animalism animals do not drink alcohol or work with humans. However, Squealer justifies Napoleon’s actions to the animals saying it’s okay if he does …show more content…

This shows the corruption by the pigs and how they are influenced by the humans and lose sight of Animalism. Animal Farm demonstrations a series of conflicts: Snowball versus Napoleon, the animals versus Mr. Jones, and the common animals versus the pigs. But all these conflicts exploit the ideals and the harsh reality of socialism. Some major themes in the book were false alliances: an example of Napoleon and Mr. Fredrick as there both trying to cheat each other. This shows how injustice certain character are. Then, the role of authority: Boxer is a compassionate character, but his ignorance allows rulers like Napoleon to grow stronger. Napoleon having great power over the animals makes him too strong to overthrow. My response to the work when first reading the book in high school I honestly did not understand the concept behind it with socialism and totalitarianism. But being in high school I did like the novella. It was very engaging and left me wanting to read more. That’s why now having George Orwell as a topic for my discussion I chose him because I recognized his name and his works. Now as an adult and actually understanding and being interested in history Animal Farm has to be one of the best books I read in the time frame it came out. The book made me feel an emotional attachment to the characters, and sometimes that can

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