I intend to write an essay in which I explain how power corrupts the main characters in ‘Animal Farm’. Firstly I will talk about the rebellion; it takes place after the animals become fed up of Mr and Mrs Jones the first two human characters that we are introduced to in the novel. Mr Jones Reign of the farm lead to the animals not being fed and miss treated. “So when evening came the animals were still not fed”. This is what causes the animals to rebel.
Name: Emily Coleman Date: June 8, 2012 Selection Title: Animal Farm Literal Meaning: The story Animal farm is rhetoric of the Russian Revolution. It retells the story of the emergence and development of the Soviet Communism in the form of a story with animals who wish to take over the farm. Animal farm allegorizes the rise to the power of the dictator Mr. Jones Stalin. The over throw of Mr. Jones by a democratic coalition of animals gives away all of the power to the pigs. Just the Soviet, the pigs are able to establish themselves as a ruling class in the now new society.
This results in dictatorships, with leaders like Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. They (and others) get ideas in their heads how things should be, and their self-motivation and their own ideas are where they draw their inspiration from when they make decisions. In the novella Animal Farm, Napoleon starts out small, being on the opposing side of all arguments, staying behind and fulfilling his own desires, for example when he drinks the milk that was for all the animals. He takes advantage of all the animals. He gets bigger ideas about how things should be, and eventually goes against all the principles that the animals had all agreed upon at the beginning of the rebellion.
While pigs like Napoleon and Snowball are allegorically Stalin and Trotsky, respectively, Squealer has a less definitive role. Being the chief minister of propaganda, Squealer probably represents Stalin's close associate and protégé, V. Molotov. He can also represent the wider array of propagandists, like the newspaper Pravda. It is also possible that Squealer was inspired by Goebbels of Nazi Germany. Squealer is in Animal Farm to illustrate the effect propaganda has on the masses, and how the masses easily change their minds.
‘Animal Farm’ written by George Orwell is a novel where George uses the technique of allegory to demonstrate a series of events that took place during the Russian Revolution in 1917. These events are compared to events that take place in a farm, such as events that arise when the animals in the farm go against Mr Jones, the owner and operator of the farm, and events that arise due to conflicts within the animals. The start of this novel serves as the start of a circle, because of which it is easy to foreshadow how the book will end. Basically via the use of Animalism, George shows how those that revolt eventually turn into a similar rule as the one they were rebelling against, and so the cycle of oppression goes on. The description of Mr Jones’s activities in the first paragraph foreshadows the activities that the pigs indulge in later in the book.
A pig named snowball tries to change napoleons way to make all the animals life’s better, he tries to follow Old Majors commands. But Snowball is then chased out and banished by Napoleon. He tells the animals he was banished for their benefit but really Napoleon has just taken complete control and was abusing his power. Boxer, one of the horses, was injured by a cart of rocks falling on him. He could no longer work, napoleon tells the animals he is going to send him to hospital to get better but he is not.
They gathered together a band of other pigs who had been forced off their land. Their new brigade of porkinistas attacked the wolf complex with machine guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear message to the rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their affairs. Then the pigs set up a model democracy with free education, affordable health care, and cheap housing for
The conflicts among the animals and the humans included the defeat of Mr. Jones the head farmer, the bombing of the main farm windmill twice, and the death of Boxer the farm’s trusty cart-horse. The conflicts in the book would be Man vs Man, and Man vs Society. Boxer could have been described as the most sympathetic character in the novel, Boxer symbolized all of the best qualities: dedication, and loyalty. However boxer suffered a major weakness a naïve trust and an inability to recognize corruption. Animal Farm proved the quote because, in order to reach their dreams and paradise, the animals had to encounter death and major destruction around them.
He uses many themes to convey his main points to this allegory, such as corruption, abuse of power and social order. The corruption of the self-appointed authorities of Animalism is also a crucial theme portrayed in Animal Farm. At the beginning of the story, we find the pigs in much the same predicament as the other animals on the farm. They are all exploited ruthlessly by an authority which cares little for their plight. Playing a leading role in the ensuing revolution the pigs find themselves with more and more power over the trusting and naïve population of Animal Farm.
However when Nicholas´ own generals withdrew their support of him, civil war arrives in the form of the “BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION “when Nicholas, like Jones, is removed from his place of rule and then dies shortly thereafter. Old Major is modeled on Lenis, the leader of “Bolshevik Party”. Old Major outlines the principles of animalism which is based on the fact that all animals should be equals, and that they should revolt against their oppressor in this case humans. However, Old Major dies before he can see the final results of the revolution, as Lenis did before witnessing the work of the reform. Lenin was responsible for changing Russia into U.S.S.R ( Union of Sovietic Socialists Republics), as Old Major is responsible for transforming manor farm into animal farm.