Old Major In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Although Animal Farm has to deal with animals it also relates to human life. This is how, In Animal Farm they do not like to be mistreated by their owner as all of us do. All of the character in this book feel that they have been mistreated by Mr.Jones who is the drunk owner for all these animals. Old major is the character that I relate to the most. Old Major is an old boar whose speech about the evils perpetrated by humans roused the animals into rebelling. His philosophy concerning the tyranny of Man is named Animalism by his followers. He also teaches the song "Beasts of England" to the animals. He has told all the animals about Utopia which is a perfect world that they would not have to worry about someone telling them what to do. The reason I have a connection with Old major is because, he has a vision of a perfect world and when people or the animals in his case that they believe in themselves. I am like that because I don't like people that aren't confident with what they have. Also, when they don't believe that they can do something that they have done before but just don't have the confidence to do it again.

A wise and convincing pig, old Major inspires the fighting against authority with his rhetorical skill and
According to him, once they "Remove Man from the scene," then "the main cause of hunger and overwork" will be permanently stopped forever. Clearly, old Major believes that Man is capable only of doing harm and that animals are capable only of doing good. Such one-dimensional thinking that ignores the desire for power built into all living things can only result in it's being proved false. Also ironic is old Major's warning to the animals: "Remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to look like him." This warning is ignored by Napoleon and the other pigs, who, by the novel's end, completely look like their human