The Takeover Of George Orwell's Animal Farm
The Takeover of Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a non-fiction novel based on the lives of a society of animals living on a farm. Although the name of the book puts forward the assumption that it is simply about animals, the story is a much deeper and complex take on behavior and human nature. The animals are puppets that exemplify how humans function, how misinformation was used by early powerful leaders such as Stalin, and how the result of control changed the behavior of citizens. Orwell considered that although socialism was perfection, it could never be effectively accepted due to uncontainable sins of human nature. For example, Napoleon, the main character seems to be an outstanding leader, he was eventually overcome by greediness …show more content…
Orwell shows how, if animals lose consciousness of their strengths, other would easily control them. “Animal Farm strikes not at the original ideals of the Revolution but at the ways they were taken over and distorted,” said Morris Dickstein. The pigs achieved the revolution by using control, deceit, violence, and propaganda over the intellectually inferior.
In Animal Farm, the pigs took power after the revolt because they announced that they were the most knowledgeable animals on the farm. Yet, it quickly became noticed that
Ahmad 2 intelligence and glorious motives were not being seen eye to eye. “The most insidious part of Napoleon’s campaign for gaining complete power is his manipulation of the past. With the help of the rhetoric of Squealer and the fierceness of the dogs, he convinces the animals that past events are not as they remember them — for example, that Snowball’s part in the Battle of the Cowshed was exaggerated, that Napoleon had never really opposed the windmill, and that in fact Snowball was a traitor.”(Charles, 1987) The control of the pigs was conditional on the innocence of the uneducated
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a non-fiction novel based on the lives of a society of animals living on a farm. Although the name of the book puts forward the assumption that it is simply about animals, the story is a much deeper and complex take on behavior and human nature. The animals are puppets that exemplify how humans function, how misinformation was used by early powerful leaders such as Stalin, and how the result of control changed the behavior of citizens. Orwell considered that although socialism was perfection, it could never be effectively accepted due to uncontainable sins of human nature. For example, Napoleon, the main character seems to be an outstanding leader, he was eventually overcome by greediness …show more content…
Orwell shows how, if animals lose consciousness of their strengths, other would easily control them. “Animal Farm strikes not at the original ideals of the Revolution but at the ways they were taken over and distorted,” said Morris Dickstein. The pigs achieved the revolution by using control, deceit, violence, and propaganda over the intellectually inferior.
In Animal Farm, the pigs took power after the revolt because they announced that they were the most knowledgeable animals on the farm. Yet, it quickly became noticed that
Ahmad 2 intelligence and glorious motives were not being seen eye to eye. “The most insidious part of Napoleon’s campaign for gaining complete power is his manipulation of the past. With the help of the rhetoric of Squealer and the fierceness of the dogs, he convinces the animals that past events are not as they remember them — for example, that Snowball’s part in the Battle of the Cowshed was exaggerated, that Napoleon had never really opposed the windmill, and that in fact Snowball was a traitor.”(Charles, 1987) The control of the pigs was conditional on the innocence of the uneducated