The Significance Of Humans In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'

The Resemblance of Humans

In the fictional novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals who won their freedom from the rule of humans began to uncover human qualities.When the animals organized themselves, they established a new government and laws. Orwell shows the reader that the animals promise not to behave in the manner that humans do. The pigs rise to power and they are the smartest and the capability. In the beginning they used their ideas initially for good like reading the book of Julius Caesar’s battle tactics in order to drive the humans away from Animal Farm. As the plot continues, the pigs begin to adapt many human ideas, like drinking alcohol, having a military enforcement in government, traded with the public enemy (humans),and
First, they changed the rules so they sleep in bed sheets. For example, the narrator states,”It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there. Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days...Curiously enough, Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheets; but as it was there on the, it must have done so(48). The pigs changed the rules without telling the other animals and they now sleep in the farmhouse beds. The animals remembered that a resolution was against the moving into the farmhouse in the early days and was convinced by Squealer that it was not the
They sold Boxer off in order to get the money to buy the beer that was not shared with the other animals. For example, the narrator depicts,”Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked “Horse Slaughterer,” and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker’s…It was almost unbelievable, said Squealer, that any animal could be so stupid... ‘But the explanation was really simple. The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon’… and the word went round that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky”(86). The pigs sent Boxer away to the knacker because how would they get extra money to buy the alcohol. Boxer was a good “comrade” and was a good supporter of Napoleon and was killed by Napoleon himself. This example demonstrates how the pigs have the lust for luxury because they traded their best comrade’s life for alcohol. Most importantly, the pigs changed food rations consistently starving the other animals. The pigs lowered down the food rations for the other animals. Squealer announced that the hens have to lay four hundred eggs a week which the hen did not expect that sacrifice was necessary. In the beginning of the story, one of the reasons for not having to give their