Jealousy In Animal Farm And Julius Caesar

Envy means desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to someone else. Envy is similar to jealousy, and both could influence people to make bad choices. In Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, and Shakespeare’s famous play Julius Caesar, the characters experience life changing events that are caused by envy and revenge. They grow as individuals throughout the book, and also learn that you have to work hard for what you want. Envy is a powerful feeling that can destroy lifelong friendships, change people in a negative way, and expose people for their true motives. Some examples of envy throughout the two novels include when Napoleon was jealous of Snowball’s power and loyalty to the rest of the animals on the farm, Cassius’s envy towards Caesar’s growing power, and how that envious feeling revealed Cassius’s true feelings and intentions towards Caesar. As a result of Snowball being so open minded and sincere about Old Major’s dream, he was blinded to the fact that Napoleon would soon betray him. Napoleon’s shenanigans of raising the pups to kick Snowball out of power revealed his true motives. His motive

Cassius exclaimed that Caesar having all the power is a bad idea, and for that he needed to die. Taking an innocent man’s life for a reason that might not even be true is a cruel act of selfishness. Cassius assumed that Caesar will have a negative effect on Rome, and made a life or death decision based on assuming. Revenge and envy also causes people to assume things. Napoleon, from Animal Farm, assumed that Snowball was in charge of taking revenge by destroying the windmill. These animals are caught up in all of the negativity that comes with being jealous of each other, that they only look at the bad traits in each of them. They assume the worst of each other and cannot come and work together like they once did to take out the