Examples Of Savagery In Animal Farm By George Orwell

Jack is not an appropriate choice of a leader due to his many inconvenient outbursts of rage and savagery. Orwell gives insight of Jack’s menacing personality: “’ I cut the pig’s throat,’ said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as he said it” (69). Any other person may feel somewhat sorry for the animal, but Jack is proud of his actions and feels no remorse. When it speaks of his twitch it may refer to his thought of slaughtering the animal and he truly is proud of it, or he is trying to flush out the remorse that is trying to affect his mindset. Although Orwell never directly states Jack’s savagery, we can infer about it when he says that “He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk” (31). Jack obviously has some
anger built up inside in which he has no filter to hide it. Instead, he lets everyone see his true colors so they know not to make him angrier, or else it might lead to dangerous situations. Jack is a very evil leader who uses brutality to control the group, but with this he also influences Roger to follow in his footsteps and perhaps become even more evil.