Literacy Essay On Animal Farm

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George Orwell had the intention of allowing readers of Animal Farm to develop an understanding of how power controls. The novel Animal Farm is a satire to the Russian Revolution and therefore Orwell associates certain real characters with the characters in the book. Old Major’s dream of a revolution against Jone’s and his men gives the intelligent animals in the farm a different outlook in life. The pigs who are regarded as the most intelligent animals on the farm instruct the other animals as they live up to Old Major’s dream and rebel. Soon after the rebellion, the pigs being ‘in charge’, write up 7 commandments (laws) for the farm so that animals no longer have to be slaves for humans, but instead to be equal and free. These laws were written up for animals to remind themselves of who they are so they do not develop human qualities as time goes on. “No animals shall sleep on a bed”. This is the forth commandment of the seven drawn up. This law was to restrict animals of the farm from sleeping on beds, making themselves more comfortable the way humans would do. Old Majors request before he died was for all animals not to forget who they are and not to develop human qualities, but this soon changes as the book progresses. Napoleon and his fellow pigs begin to “over-play” their roles in the farm with the power and control that they have over the less-intelligent animals. Orwell brings in the concept of “power controls” further in the book as the pigs now begin to alter the 7 commandments to their own benefit without question. “No animals shall sleep on a bed” is changed to “no animals shall sleep on a bed without sheets”. This change allows readers to realize how the pigs are slowly abusing their power and developing human qualities. Animals were forbidden from wearing clothes for it relates them closely to humans because clothes are regarded as an
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