The introduction to my Literary Analysis for “Animal Farm” by George Orwell is that the animals on the farm and the pigs own the animals and land on the farm. The pigs are rude and mean and they don’t care about the other animals on the farm and they didn’t like snowball and they exiled him for thinking about the windmill. The short summary would be that the pigs don’t care and they should be exiled they changed the rules on the side of the barn and nobody even said anything and they were afraid to tell anyone. The thesis is that this is all because the pigs are in charge. The Betrayal of Political Idealism is where Napoleon and the committee of the pigs now make all of the decisions instead of voting after the discussions. Pigs take charge and take their own special rewards such as the milk and apples. The importance is that the pigs are taking the food and milk that the other animals could eat or drink to get stronger so that they could work harder and faster. “In the future all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself.” The pigs are sleeping in human beds. The importance of this is that the pigs are betraying the rule that says “No animal shall sleep in a bed.” …show more content…
Because with every word he gains more and more control of the farm. The importance is that if he gains more control the more animals would want to leave to get far away from him. Napoleon wants to control the farm by controlling the young. The importance is that if he controls the young, he can train them to be mean and hurt the other animals to where they submit to him. “No one knew where the dogs came from, but they were the puppies that Napoleon had taken from their mothers and raised them privately. They stayed close to Napoleon. They wagged their tails to Napoleon the way they way wagged their tails at
They work for no one, but themselves. The pigs start to enforce rules, the main rule being that anything with two legs is an enemy, and to be considered a friend they have to have four legs or wings.
The first method Napoleon used to stay in charge was outsmarting the animals. The First way Napoleon outsmarted the
The rulers of the farm take advantage of the low reading skills that the rest of the animals possess and use that weakness against them, as the animals just believe whatever the pigs tell them to, as they have no reason not to. The pigs’ goals seem intact and they do
Although there were many different species of animals on the farm, there was one who stood out; “the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals. ”(5) The two front-runners for leadership of the farm were Snowball and Napoleon, and while “Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches,”(15) “Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. ”(15)
Napoleon then become ruler, and is said to be a very good, wise pig. Napoleon knows that he has all the power because the pigs are the wises animals on the farm, being considered wise, every animal did what he said This is where the power goes to bad use and messes up the whole farm, the main reason that they overthrew the human owner was because of the way he treated the animals and the way he ran the farm, Old Major wanted ever animal to be equal. Since . Napoleon and the other pigs were breaking their own rule that they made and adjusting them to their benefit. They started to have human like characteristics, killing other animals that were in no stable condition, overworking animals.
Furthermore, Napoleon gives the other animals the impression he was the sole leader of the rebellion on Animal farm and makes Snowball -a leader who wanted what was best for the animals- seem like an enemy who was in cahoots with Farmer Jones since long before the animals took over the farm. Napoleon and Squealer (another “fat cat” pig.) always put the blame on Snowball whenever something went wrong in the farm to avoid having the blame fall on them. Napoleon is an exemplary example of just how selfish and hypocritical people can be in furthering their own aims because he continued to subtly but purposely change the seven rules put in place as the pillars of animalism. For example, Napoleon and the other pigs move into Farmer Jones’s house and sleep in his bed after commanding “No animal shall sleep in a bed”, so he changes the commandment to read “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”.
It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS” (Orwell 118). The original Seven Commandments are essentially what make up the foundation of Animalism and are based on the principles created by Old Major. By slimming them down to just one single Commandment, and also changing the meaning of them, the pigs ruin the entire purpose of the Rebellion. Instead of expressing the true ideas of Animalism inspired by Old Major of all animals being equal and keeping away from human beings, the pigs portray the opposite of that. The reader is certain that Napoleon’s autocracy has destroyed Animal Farm’s language when Napoleon tells his fellow humans, “Hitherto the animals on the farm had had a rather foolish custom of addressing one another as "Comrade.
And it’s getting worse when he selled boxer to a slaughterer to have money for buying more alcohol, even if all of the barley is already reserve to the pigs. He begin to act like a human, meet them, smoke, drink alcohol and wear clothes. To show that all of the goal of the first rebellion never continue that way, they change the song Beast of England and the name of the farm for “Manor farm”. Napoleon didn’t do what the revolution had wanted. The animals follow him, respect him even if they didn’t have to.
The animals trusted the pigs so much that the pigs were able to deceive them and get them to do what they wanted. This is important because it shows how the pigs got their power. It’s important in the world because many leaders gain their power due to their education or intelligence in general. Many leaders that are
This relates to the theme because, throughout the story, the pigs have been in charge because they have more knowledge than the other animals. They were also really clever and could think of a way around every difficulty the farm experienced. ( Orwell 13) In the middle of the story, some crucial rules were being changed and the animals did not do anything about it. “ … pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds.”
He eventually took more habits of a human such as drinking and walking on two legs. He started to communicate with people more and ultimately became indistinguishable from the humans while having a good time with other farmers and his pigs. There were a lot of fallacies committed by the pigs which easily caught the animals. The book potentially shows how the strong can take control of the weak. Napoleon became the leader, because he was one of the most intelligent as well as other pigs.
Napoleon also uses manipulation to gain and maintain a firm control by changing the Commandments for the farm in ways that work to his benefit. Squealer, Napoleon’s propaganda department, Keeps the farm animals believing in Napoleon by describing what they hear and see to make it seem harmless. Using effective tactics of fear, convincing propaganda, and manipulation, Napoleon gains and maintains control of Animal Farm. “Animal Farm” has corruption and equality in a way the animals try to succeed and achieve a goal to make the farm better. Power corrupts in “Animal Farm” because the pigs have a goal which is working together and helping one another.
His unfair treatment by his early teachers is represented by the pigs, who unsuccessfully tried to teach the others to read and write. His personal distrust of the learned is shown by the manner in which Snowball manipulates the other animals. The deception is also shown in how the pigs use their monopolized ability to read and write to change the written laws of the farm in their favor, which the other animals are unable to detect. Finally, Orwell’s own personal experience of being unable to further his education and having remained a part of the working class are depicted in the other animals of the farm. Though they tried to learn to read and write, they were not able to do so.
In Orwell’s novel, the pigs corrupted the entire farm and brought the farm to its old ways. The other animals were outside the farmhouse looking in the window, but the problem was they couldn’t tell the difference between human and pig (Orwell 124). The pigs started treating the other animals with the same treatment Mr. Jones had. Animal Farm had become Manor Farm all over again. The audience throughout the book could sense the ending being miserable for the animals.
Napoleon had also shown the key theme of lying. He chooses to betray the animals by making business with the humans as he betrayed Old Major ’s ideals called Animalism where it includes not to mix with the humans as they are tyrants. Because the pigs were smarter, they used their intelligence to avoid working “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership.”