Deception In Animal Farm Analysis

In George Orwell’s tragic fable Animal farm, the author depicts the dreadful behaviour of the pigs when given the ability to take control over Animal Farm through the rebellion of the animals of Manor Farm. Deception frequently occurs throughout the novel when Napoleon and Squealer gain power over the other animals through various strategies mostly including lying to the animals. Napoleon frames Snowball for despicable crimes, then lies on multiple accounts to help his own cause afterwards he uses propaganda to gain complete authority of the Animal Farm.

One of the very first acts of deception shown is when Napoleon put a bounty on Snowball “Animal Hero, Second Class”, and half a bushel to anyone who captures him alive!” to make sure that all of the animals would be infuriated and ready to do him harm he frames him for the destruction of the windmill as all of the animals were scattered around their hard work broken up into pieces big and small he says “do you know who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!” , he then goes on to lie and spoil Snowballs image even more by telling everyone through Squealer that Snowball had sold himself to Frederick of Pinch field farm and that he was plotting to take over the Animal Farm because he was a secret agent for Jones and had
“Clover had not remembered that the fourth commandment mentioned sheets” (Orwell 46) although they justify their own means of comfort by changing the commandment and “we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not? (Orwell 46) “The animals reassured him on this point immediately and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds” (Orwell