Animal Farm By George Orwell
Animals talking, a pigs taking over, what a mess is this! George Orwell’s Animal farm writes about a group of animals that allegorically represents humans. Unlike the uneducated animals in the farm, the intelligent pigs take advantage and take over the farm. By showing slow changes of rules, the pigs show intelligent exploitation and brain washes the animals. Boxer, the Hens and many other animals have been treated with disrespect and don’t know that they are being used for the pigs benefits. George Orwell's theme in Animal Farm is that in order to avoid exploitation, one must be educated. Old Majors dying early in the book makes the pigs the bosses and gives them a chance to take over. Using intelligent pig brains, the pigs started their
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They had found Squealer sprawled out on the ground with a paintbrush in his hand and the commandments dripping with paint. A few days later, Muriel had noticed something different about the commandments that she didn't recall from her memory. "But a few days later Muriel noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was 'No animal shall drink alcohol,' but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: 'No animal shall drink alcohol to excess'"(103). This had occurred in other laws also, and yet no one questioned it. No one questioned the fact that Squealer was caught red handed by every animal on the farm and still no one did anything. The animals had somewhat of a grip on reality, but as soon as Squealer explained to them what were right and what was wrong that feeling of uncertainty was dismissed because of their lack of intelligence. One of the rules that stood firm was that any animal that was on two legs is an enemy but the pigs soon broke that rule …show more content…
The pigs soon had human characteristics wearing pants cloths and even walking on two legs. “And a moment later, out from the food of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs” (Orwell 133). Most of the animals couldn’t read and didn’t like to participate in educational reading and times but they knew the phrase “four legs good, two legs bad”. Seeing this the pigs and sheep both started to say “four legs good, two legs better”. None of the animals were against this except for Clover and Benjamin, who saw what was left of the seven commandments “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal then
They had found Squealer sprawled out on the ground with a paintbrush in his hand and the commandments dripping with paint. A few days later, Muriel had noticed something different about the commandments that she didn't recall from her memory. "But a few days later Muriel noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was 'No animal shall drink alcohol,' but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: 'No animal shall drink alcohol to excess'"(103). This had occurred in other laws also, and yet no one questioned it. No one questioned the fact that Squealer was caught red handed by every animal on the farm and still no one did anything. The animals had somewhat of a grip on reality, but as soon as Squealer explained to them what were right and what was wrong that feeling of uncertainty was dismissed because of their lack of intelligence. One of the rules that stood firm was that any animal that was on two legs is an enemy but the pigs soon broke that rule …show more content…
The pigs soon had human characteristics wearing pants cloths and even walking on two legs. “And a moment later, out from the food of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs” (Orwell 133). Most of the animals couldn’t read and didn’t like to participate in educational reading and times but they knew the phrase “four legs good, two legs bad”. Seeing this the pigs and sheep both started to say “four legs good, two legs better”. None of the animals were against this except for Clover and Benjamin, who saw what was left of the seven commandments “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal then