How Does Orwell’s Writing Make This Moment in the Novel so Moving?

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Orwell’s writing makes this moment in the novel so moving, for the reader, by his use of emotive language and characterisation of the animals in relation to the Russian revolution. The allegory is able to convey the feelings of betrayal the animals felt when they realised that their reality was nothing like the utopia of animalism. Napoleon and the pigs betrayed the other animals in the novella as they went against commandments 6 and 7. Orwell wrote, at this moment in the novella, that clover accepted ‘the leadership of Napoleon’. This meant that Napoleon was above all the other animals on the farm, Napoleon was a leader; therefore, the animals had to follow what he said. All animals were not ‘equal’ and this is the moment that Clover realises it. Commandment 6 was broken when the traitors were slaughtered for ‘protesting when Napoleon abolished the Sunday meetings’. The traitors represent the mass execution of the people who disagrees with Stalin’s ideas during the 1930’s. 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. They worked extremely hard as they were under the impression that in the future the ‘animals would be free of hunger and the whip’, they we looking towards a utopia, where animals worked together, the ‘strong protecting the weak’
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