Piggo made his out of Titanium (strongest metal in the world). Eventually they began the war and you would see guns firing and canons being shot at but the evil snuck up on the pigs and went to take down each of them one by one. The wolf had little monkey soldiers who were firing back at the brick castle. The wolf went behind Porky and Porkchop and went for the snipe and when he killed them he took their bodies and any valuables back to the brick castle. Once he got back he hung out the dead bodies to threaten Piggo and he was trapped but he had a backup plan as he knew this might happen.
A monarchy is political system in which supreme authority is given to an individual ruler who functions as the decision maker for all in the society. Old Major and Mr. Jones both die leaving the farm under the rule of the animals. Two pigs Napoleon and Snowball both want a leadership position. Napoleon gains complete control over the animals by brainwashing them into thinking Snowball was a bad pig. Napoleon’s dictatorship is further evidenced when he sets the dogs against Snowball to increase his political power.
Displeased with sharing the little power he has with Snowball, he expels Snowball from Animal Farm. This demolishes what little republic system the farm had, and Napoleon begins to make all of the decisions regardless of what the other animals think. This is the beginning of his reign. He develops a government type organization of pigs to do his biddings. He also trains some dogs to guard him.
Just as the pigs rewrite history, they manipulate statistics in their favor, claiming that every important aspect of life on the farm has improved statistically since the Rebellion: animals live longer, eat more, have more offspring, work fewer hours, and so forth. In this way, the pigs produce a false vision of reality. Napoleon killed many innocent animals during his reign of power. He would execute an animal for simple unjustified reasons in order to prove his superiority. He has murdered many over silly disputes.
Piggy’s name suggests that he will be a victim of the beast. Not the beast the boys on the island fear, but the beast within the boys themselves. The author is saying through Piggy that because they kill and eat the pigs they become the beast. Ralph prays to the adult world to send them something from the grownups: a sign. His prayer is answered by a dead parachutist, a casualty of war from the fighting going on in civilized society.
Stalin’s ideas were not the same as communism and Orwell is able to portray this when he specifically states that ‘Napoleon’ abolished the meetings, later in the scene, Orwell again wrote that Napoleon ‘demanded’ other animals to ‘confess’. Orwell uses Napoleon’s name in front of orders to show that he was the leader and he created a dictatorship, just like Stalin. Napoleon was able to make the other animals fear him that no one challenged his rule; this was far from communism and the idea of animalism. Clover represents the working class in Russia. In the 1900’s, the working class were betrayed by the government and now the animals are betrayed by Napoleon.
Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. It is a novel based on the communist take-over of Russia on the heels of World War II. Orwell depicts this historical event in the novel because it is about a group of animals who rebel against their cruel master, but are soon overcome by corruption. The major theme in this novel is that power corrupts people. I think that Orwell is trying to tell us that even people who start out very idealistic can become corrupted.
In Squealer’s version of Snowball’s part of the battle, Snowball was planning to “leave the field to the enemy” (p54). Afterwards, Squealer described how Napoleon was the one who “sprang forward with a cry of ‘death to humanity!’ and sank his teeth into Mr Jone’s leg” when everything was so chaotic (p54). During his speech, Squealer describe everything in so much detail that it “seemed to the animals that they did remember it” (p54). As a result, Squealer has used propaganda to manipulate the memories of the animals so they would believe that Napoleon is the rightful person to trust and Snowball was actually on the side of the enemy. Another form of propaganda was when the pigs started to twist the seven commandments, a list of seven rules the animals in animal farm must follow, to their own needs.
Despite all this, he goes up the mountain & ,discovers that the beast is in fact just a man. Then he vomits and staggers down the mountain. By now, Ralph and Piggy (both rather ravenous) are attending a big party that Jacki is throwing. Simon, still bloody, sweaty, and covered in puke, stumbles down into the center of the crazed boys, tries to tell them about the beast, but he is unrecognizable and the boys jab at him with their spears until he is dead. Again, the boys are portrayed as savage animals.
‘You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you?’”(133). After the conversation with the Lord of the Flies, Simon goes unconscious, when Simon wakes up, he runs to the camp to tell everyone what he had just encountered. It was raining and there was thunder and lightning, thinking Simon is the beast, the boys deliriously murder him, “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (141).