Is To Blame For The Failure Of Communism In Animal Farm

George Orwell’s fable Animal Farm is a text that ultimately intends to provide both an attack and criticism of Stalin and the failed system that is communism. Throughout the fable Orwell represents the important figures and stereotypes of the Soviet Regime as animals. Animals who share the blame for the horrendous atrocities that occur over the duration of the fable. All the animals were to blame for the failure of Animalism due to their ignorance of oblivious evil, their greed, their unwillingness to amend their mistakes and their lack of action that will inevitably cause generations of animals to live painful and laborious lives under the rule of a dictator.

Orwell gives the characters of his fable a variety of different human traits such
Napoleons desire for power led him down a dark and violent path in order for him to remain in control. Blinded by their own greed or stupidity, the other animals never realised or questioned Napoleon’s unethical methods of obtaining power or the effects caused as a result of his increased control. One of the earliest signs of Napoleon’s unethical practices was the theft and indoctrination of “nine sturdy puppies” who he took “away from their mothers.” Mothers who, like the rest of the farm, offered no protest and soon forgot about their puppies. Napoleon continued to worsen the animal’s situation and break and manipulate the laws of Animalism. The animals gave no protest as “the dogs promptly tore their throats out” as they confessed to crimes they did not commit. The reader is shown that the animals could have revolted and fought against the tyrant Napoleon had become, Boxer himself “caught a dog mid-air, and pinned him under his hoof” questioning “whether he should crush the dog to death or let it go.” However the animals did not fight back. They did not question Napoleon’s methods. Instead they went about their lives in fear and under the rule of a tyrant. A life they and their children will have to