Similarities Between 1984 And Animal Farm
A Numb Brain is a Dumb Brain
Actions triggered by disasters are occasionally rash and follow a haywire concept, but none is more tantalizing than the ideal of perfect communism and total equality. However, each person in a society has talents and weaknesses. For some, these strengths include the leadership qualities required to make international connections and intercontinental trade and commerce. These leaders eventually receive the power they can control, and inevitably and undeniably use it to force the people of their nation into classes. The corruption of communism is present in both 1984 and Animal Farm, but the differences lie in the speech and the characters, as 1984 follows mindful civilians and Animal Farm has only mindless and dormant followers.
The primary principles of the communist and utopian societies proposed in both 1984 and Animal Farm are dependent upon the war in the stories. The general public is promised a major victory in return for their support and labor. In both stories, the war is against a former ally. All narratives told from the perspective of the followers outline this alienation and deception, but only the readers truly remember. In the book Animal Farm, the animals are …show more content…
The civilians seen in Animal Farm operate blindly and utterly faithfully. While Winston is similarly surrounded, he himself is almost alone in his belief that the Party should fall. This difference is key, seeing as how the different views change what ultimately happens. "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious" (Orwell, 1984 74). These are the words of a character who is aware of their control, not of a person who believes their system is just. In Animal Farm, truly, “The animals believed every word of it” (Orwell, Animal Farm 115). Are these characters not
Actions triggered by disasters are occasionally rash and follow a haywire concept, but none is more tantalizing than the ideal of perfect communism and total equality. However, each person in a society has talents and weaknesses. For some, these strengths include the leadership qualities required to make international connections and intercontinental trade and commerce. These leaders eventually receive the power they can control, and inevitably and undeniably use it to force the people of their nation into classes. The corruption of communism is present in both 1984 and Animal Farm, but the differences lie in the speech and the characters, as 1984 follows mindful civilians and Animal Farm has only mindless and dormant followers.
The primary principles of the communist and utopian societies proposed in both 1984 and Animal Farm are dependent upon the war in the stories. The general public is promised a major victory in return for their support and labor. In both stories, the war is against a former ally. All narratives told from the perspective of the followers outline this alienation and deception, but only the readers truly remember. In the book Animal Farm, the animals are …show more content…
The civilians seen in Animal Farm operate blindly and utterly faithfully. While Winston is similarly surrounded, he himself is almost alone in his belief that the Party should fall. This difference is key, seeing as how the different views change what ultimately happens. "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious" (Orwell, 1984 74). These are the words of a character who is aware of their control, not of a person who believes their system is just. In Animal Farm, truly, “The animals believed every word of it” (Orwell, Animal Farm 115). Are these characters not