Use Of Dictatorship In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Animal Farm is supposed to be for animals to escape the people’s cruelty but is it possible for the animals to have their freedom and equality if Napoleon is just as bad as the people? In his novel Orwell has a message spoken throughout Animal Farm that says whenever and wherever animals want to be free there’s always someone higher that is bigger and has more power. In Animal Farm, George Orwell uses dictatorship, individuality and hardship to reveal how the animals lost their freedom and equality.
Throughout Animal Farm the author uses dictatorship to describe the ways of the pigs being at the top and having leadership but the animals being lower don’t because, “some animals are more equal than others,” they are like slaves doing all the
work their master says to do. So the animals that are lower don’t have the same freedom or rights to be able to do the variety things that the higher pigs do since they just the rest of the population. All animals even some of the ones that lack some knowledge like the sheep want or need to speak their mind but one horse named are just the animals Clover thought what every other animals thought, “ Any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak… did not know why-they had come to a time which fierce growling dogs roamed everywhere and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces.” (Orwell pg.86-87) The pig’s leadership was like dictatorship, because even though the pigs lead the other animals into freedom the animals didn’t escape the cruelties all the way. Napoleon was the ruler over the farm but he didn’t use leadership anymore but dictatorship telling the animals what and what not to do. If any one animal would speak his mind or tell Napoleon that their past leader Snowball told them to do some kind of issue to the farm then they would be killed in front of everyone to show what would happen to them.
In the novel Orwell uses individuality to reveal how the animals loss their freedom and equality. Napoleon takes away the animals individuality because he thinks that he has the power to do it. Upon this the farm had seven commandments that are important to the animals then Napoleon takes all the power of the farm. Since the seven commandments are discarded since Napoleon has taken over rule there is only one new commandment, “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL.” (Orwell pg.134) The animals feel that if the pigs are more equal than they should be as equal as the higher ones. Napoleon had said that all animals are equal to each other unlike the humans but then he turns and believes that the one who rules is the highest and best.
One last thing George Orwell uses is hardship.
He decides to use hardship to describe the animal’s loss of freedom and equality. The animals work hard at their work to make a society that is free of whips and human cruelty but there’s only one issue and that’s Napoleon. He believes that putting animals to do more work and do it harder that it will be a society that will be better. He doesn’t see that since he’s doing this that the animals are starving, becoming more tired and becoming older faster. All animals are hard workers but the ones that does most of the work is Boxer. He does so much that he gets hurt, “Boxer!” she cried, “How are you?” “It is my lung,” said Boxer in a weak voice… “Fools! Fools!” shouted Benjamin… “Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?”… “ ‘Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels Supplied. Do you not understand what that means? They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s!”(Orwell pg.118, 119,122) Boxer is the strongest out of all the animals on the farm but also the one that works harder and harder every day. Hardship is being used to show that all animals and Boxer work and work just to have some of their freedom and equality on the farm. The animals tried their hardest to save Boxer but it was too late he was gone but he will be remembered for how a hard worker he
was.
As it is seen in this story Animal Farm contains dictatorship, individuality and hardship to reveal how the animals of this farm lost their freedom and equality. Napoleons dictatorship wasn’t like leadership when someone leads the group into something greater. Napoleon cared only for himself and getting to be known better. In individuality it’s like the animals being free and equal but has Napoleon takes over power he takes away their individuality so it’s like the animals have to go ask permission from him instead of doing it their way. Including all of this hardship also took part in this novel because all animals were put to work but the one put to the hardest work was Boxer. He believed that he needed to work harder to get what the farm needed: a good society.