How Does Orwell Use Satire In Animal Farm

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George Orwell’s 1945 Animal Farm, was illustrated out of anger at Europe admiring the Soviet Union. Orwell published this novel using allegory and satire to criticize Joseph Stalin. After years of poor treatment, the animal in the novel decide to rebel against their farmer and take over, and run the farm for themselves. Uniting as one, the animal successfully run off their farmer and his wife and are left with no leader, until the pigs decided to step up and take charge. The animals, as a whole, agreed on 7 commandments to obey and live by soon after they took over the farm. “1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes. 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. …show more content…

Not even before all animals were there, the dogs seized out four pigs and brought them the Napoleon's feet. After they are forced to confess to communicating with Snowball their throats are violently ripped out by the dogs in front of the whole farm. Snowball asks the remaining animals if anyone else would like to admit to association with Snowball and three hens, a goose, three sheeps and many more came forward and were slaughtered right on the spot. After a pile of dead corpse was made the animals quickly scattered and a group of animals, the same group that questioned the pigs sleeping in beds, gathered to discuss what they just witnessed. Commandment six read, no animal shall kill another animal. The commandment now read “ no animal shall kill another animal, without cause” (Orwell 83-91). In 1936, sixteen Communists confessed to communication with Leon Trotsky and were executed immediately by Joseph Stalin. It is ironic that the killings on animal farm mock the Moscow Purge Trials, which is something that happened during the Russian Revolution and happened because of the rivalry between Stalin and

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