George Orwell's Animal Farm

Statement of Intention: This is an expository piece in which I will be outlining parts of animal farm which are linked to the context of freedom which is widely and thoroughly outlined in the novel. This piece is targeted to students who are in Year 10, which have also been studying Animal Farm so they can relate their own opinions to mine. The language is rather formal.
Whereas the piece explores concepts of freedom not only from animal farm but also the simple concept of what freedom really is, and a recent example of how a young girl was denied her freedom and when she stood up for it she was nearly killed.
The aim of this piece it to show how freedom is still not available to everybody in the same way, in history after the Russian Revolution
(which the novel is based on) and even in our modern day society t is still an issue.

What really means by the word freedom?
Freedom is ‘the power or right to act, speak or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint’ as well as the ‘absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government’ this is the first thing that comes up after the word ‘what is freedom’ are type into Google search.
Freedom is shown throughout animal farm an idea of a world with no humans was introduced by a pig names Old Major. He wanted the animals to take over, and all live equally amongst themselves. This then leads to a revolution; the animals do this to make a better life for themselves then the one they were living under Mr Jones’ power as they are dominated by the humans who show them no respect even after all their large contribution which makes Mr Jones’ farm run smoothly.
The unfair way they are treated leads to a revolution in which the animals rebel against the humans. The animals try to live in a democratic manner so that all the animals are treated equally until a pig named Napoleon takes over and turns his power into a dictatorship. Napoleon gives the animal’s false hope by telling them believable lies. So throughout the story the morals which the animals fought for, such as equality and freedom, begin to disappear as gradually they lose their rights as well as their
freedom.
The equal, perfect world the animals wished and dreamed about becomes worse than before when it was run under the power of the Jones’. All the animals wanted were what they were promised by their selfish and brainwashing ‘leader’ Napoleon. The animals wanted an equal share of power and authority but Napoleon wanted everyone to be under his power and he gained this by pushing the animals till they could not anymore, such as in the case of Boxer, and using as much force and manipulation that was needed.
Napoleon made the animals believe that he was in power because he knew what was best for the animals as well as the farm.
He forced them into believing that he was a strong leader who would make the best decisions possible. Slowly Napoleon takes away any opportunities that the animals have to speak up. He does this by firstly making nine threatening dogs apart of his entourage. Soon after he eliminates Sunday meetings and tells the animals he has everything in control and that the time used in the meetings would be more efficiently used if they worked instead but he actually just wants to do this so that the voting process would be finished and all the decisions would be left to Napoleon. From the way in which Napoleon acts it is obvious he does not care for the welfare of the animals, he only cares about himself and gaining full authority and power of the farm. This is especially shown when he starts doing business with humans just to make more money, which goes against everything that Old Major and the other animals stood for. By having Napoleon in power the animals are declined of their
freedom.

Though Animal Farm is based on the Russian revolution which happened a long time ago, freedom is still denied in many places such as recently when a 15 year old girl in Afghanistan who is of Pakistani descent, was shot in the head by the Taliban as she was spotted coming back home from school though she has survived and has just started to recover however the Taliban have spoken out and said that they will target her again if she survived. This young girl was targeted simply because she wanted to gain an education and had a thirst to learn with admiring people such as Barack Obama
Freedom means different things to different people, the way in which they can express themselves in a free society where they will not be judged or denied this freedom such as in Animal Farm where the animals are denied their freedom by Napoleon just like 15 year old Malala Yousufzai who was denied the freedom to learn by the Taliban, this just shows that freedom is still an issue today in our modern society.