Inequality In Animal Farm

A perfect world is impossible to create without its faults. The faults in a dystopia can all be narrowed down to people’s ethics and morals as well as how they choose to apply them. In such a society where everything is equal there will always be an underlining inequality caused by corruption and greed. As conveyed by Martin Luther King Jr. in the article “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” which illuminates that injustice should not be accepted instead actions must be taken to bring change and equality. Furthermore, supported by the United Nations article, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” which states the basic principles of human rights and relations that need to be followed to construct a better world. These articles can be applied to the novel by George Orwell called Animal Farm, where a group of farm animals yearn for a better life and to rule over themselves rather than their farmer controlling them. However, that is until their rule-based society becomes corrupted and their utopia fictional.

Such as the animals in Animal Farm, rebelled against their farmer, Mr. Jones, who had been abusing his power by killing and overworking the animals without providing them with the proper care. “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” (King Jr. 409). The animals confronted the famer and forced them out of the farm. It was due to their actions that they achieved the freedom that was withheld from them. Such as King did with sit-ins, marches, and protest that provided a platform to being to attention the peoples’ demands for their rights. If the farm animals had not been willing to fight for their rights, they would have continued to be oppressed by Mr. Jones with the threat of death hovering over