The Progression to a Totalitarian Nightmare in Animal Farm by George Orwell

The author of the novel “Animal Farm” George Orwell once wrote “every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been against totalitarianism”. Similarly “Animal Farm” also highlight about the totalitarianism. As all other revolutions, the revolution of animal farm also arises with the dream for a better and more perfect society which transfers in to a totalitarian night mare with the urge for the power in the minds of animals, who symbolizes the people who live in society. “Animal Farm is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism during the Stalin era. In the novel Orwell uses pigs to represent the ruling class and throughout the story he represent how the ruling class people spread and improve their power employing pigs as the characters.

Orwell opens the novel Animal Farm” mentioning about thee carelessness drunk runner or the Manor farm Mr.Jones. Oldest wise pig Major takes the use of the weakness of Mr.Jones and gives the idea of a farm which controls by themselves through his speech Old Major explains how the animals throughout the world suffers under the control of human beings. Then he says about his dream.

“I cannot describe that dream to you. It was a dream of the earth as it will be when Man has vanished.”

Through this he puts the idea of a better society where they can enjoy more privileges than they are enjoying today. Old Major highlight his idea by the song called “Beasts of England”, which he had heard in his childhood.

“Soon or later the day is coming,

Tyrant Man shall be o’ ertbrown,

And the fruitful fields of England,

Shall be trod by beasts alone”.

As well as to emphasis his dream and to splash his idea of animalism society he sing the song and present animalism idea is not his ow...

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... sweat and tears shed by the other animals power owning community makes their life luxury as same as in our society.

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of pigs? The croutes outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

In the animal farm all the animals got together to start a rebel to build up a perfect society. Finally it comes to a totalitarian night mare in which every human rebellion finally achieved. Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is not a story which presents an imaginary story where animals talk and act as humans. But it is a story which reflects the human society where the rebellions and wars which took place, taking place and in future too will take place starts with the dream of a perfect Utopia and ends in a totalitarianism nightmare.