...June 2nd 2015 Absolute Power George Orwell created a book in which animals were almost as intelligent as humans are, and held an idea of a farm where socialism ruled. This essay will prove that absolute power is the ultimate downfall of man. This will be proven using examples from the novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell. This story shows these pigs slowly using their manipulative brains, and thoughts, to take control of this Animal Farm. Throughout the book these pigs gain more power and begin to abuse it corrupting the system transforming this socialism dream into a communism starting the whole cycle of unfair rule where signs of unrest become present once again. As the title suggests, Animal Farm takes place on a farm that was once owned by Mr. Jones, who was an abusive animal caretaker who always got drunk and never followed through with his responsibilities. This was seen in the very beginning when, "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes." This farm lies in the center of a string of three farms divided by natural barriers, and a road that leads to the town. The farm held a well, fields, orchards, stalls, house, and every other thing that a normal farm would contain. This tale was created to express the ideas of a perfect government called socialism and the human nature to want more than equality. Animal Farm shows how if someone is granted more power with nothing to tie it...
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...Hope is represented by many iconic characters in literature throughout history. One of the paramount exemplifications of hope in literature is Boxer, a strong and hard-working horse that plays a crucial role in providing for the farm. However, Boxer’s unwavering trust in Napoleon, and Napoleon feeling threatened by Boxer, leads to Boxer’s demise and alternate climax of the allegory. Boxer is a very important animal on the farm that is the setting of Orwell’s allegory. He acts as the pillar that holds the farm and keeps it from collapsing into poverty and starvation. Because Boxer is physically stronger than the other animals, he bears the brunt of the physical labor on the farm. Every animal on the farm considers Boxer to be their most vital labor worker, especially during the building of the first windmill. Though Boxer’s health throughout the story is waning, many animals still take advantage of his devotion to the farm and Napoleon. Though Boxer is physically superior to all other animals on the far, he is very ignorant to the corrupt ways of Napoleon and the pigs. Boxer...
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...chose is Animal Farm by George Orwell. Our aim in this essay is to write about what the novel tells us about marketing or consumer society. What does Animal Farm tell us about consumer behaviour? It is a message targeted at emotion, aspiration and hope that can trigger deeply emotive and primal response, which often results in us buying into an idea/product irrationally. Also, it speaks to the idea of...
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...government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny” (Thomas Jefferson). Tyranny is a type of government where the leader becomes an absolute ruler who treats his people cruel. A tyrant, the dictator, creates a government that has total control over its people and their activities. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm to teach his readers a political lesson about power corrupting people who are in control of the government. Animal Farm is a dystopian allegory about what happened to the people after their revolution of Russia in 1917. It is a political allegory, Orwell wrote an entertaining science fictional book about a society gone bad. It falls under...
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...Animal Farm In a novel called Animal Farm by George Orwell, the age old concept of the replacement of power is shown and is recreated when farm animals run their owner off. The animals take over the farm in hopes to have a better life then their owner could give them, but instead have only replaced one tyrant with another. This text is an allegory for social class because it divides the hierarchy that only benefits the strong and witty while leaving the dumb and defenseless in the lower level of service. The first divide allows for a leader to be center stage amongst the crowd. That leader would be napoleon, even though he and Snowball would continuously get into disagreements about what should be done for the farm. Snowball and Napoleon fought for the title for a while after the farm was taken over from Mr. Jones. Their approach to the matters of the farm business was different. Snowball was more like Major and wanted to work with the animals, help them read and also their young. It was snowball who was responsible for the sign “four legs good two legs bad” (p50) because the commandments were too hard to read. Napoleon like most of the animals in power on the farm was sneaky and dishonest in his methods of getting things done. For instance, Napoleon assumed the leader role by physically running Snowball off the farm with pure force. Napoleon didn’t want any contact with other animals. Napoleon would only come out to make a quick speech and that was it. Another divide that...
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...Animal Farm Essay: Topic 9 The novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is an allegory that highlights the weaknesses of the human nature through the telling of a story about the rebellion of animals on Manor Farm. These weaknesses are the sources of all malignity throughout the novel, causing most of its major conflicts and poisoning the minds of its characters. Specifically, Orwell’s writing focuses on the greed of the pigs and the ignorance of the rest of the farm animals. Together, these traits establish the totalitarian society that the farm becomes. Orwell considers the traits of greed and gullibility to be the most detrimental human attributes to hopes of an equitable society. Orwell considers greed to be one of the most dangerous faults...
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...Difference of Powers Throughout history, society has been witnesses to individuals that have evolved into selfish and narcissistic beings who rise and take power. They initially bring a temporary sign of hope to their people in the form of freedom and happiness but is short lived and overturned as these individuals solely base their lives around greed. Their thirst for power runs through their veins taking hold of their mind ultimately causing them to stop at nothing to gain power. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs new surge of power leaves them unsatisfied causing them to exploit and manipulate the other animals. The pigs defy their code to gain authority eventually leading to the corruption of the farm by their own greedy desires. George Orwell reveals the destruction that greed causes through the main antagonist, Napoleon, the affects of communism and his own life experiences. This ultimately leads the animals and Orwell into a world they do not recognize. Greed can be seen as a silent force that has the ability to conquer one’s life, where their selfish attitude allows his or her’s infatuation of power to consume them. Napoleon’s desire to become the only leader devours him as he becomes deceitful to animals except to the pigs. The animals on the farm are captivated by this new forming idea that they can become their own individuals by overthrowing the owner, Mr. Jones. This results in the animal to rejoice as they believe that they are able to control...
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...Animal Farm is a story that connects to an event called the Russian Revolution. Most of the characters in the book relate to the players who were involved in the Russian Revolution. Those players are Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and how they used propaganda to get what they wanted. This book tests the limit of trust, power, and knowledge. It shows how power, and knowledge can be used to one’s advantage, and to take one's trust and overpower it. Although initially the characters are presented as being equal, Animal Farm quickly dissolves into an unequal society because of greed, power, and the use of propaganda. Greed, one of the most powerful and manipulating thing that has happened in this book. It is demonstrated early on in the hierarchy of leadership. It started with little things that eventually lead to bigger things, but the other animals who were the uneducated, was unaware of what was to come with the pigs being their leaders. The first thing that happened was the disappearance of the milk and apples. The other animals were not to worried about this because Squealer explained to the animals “Comrades, you do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?” (35). Squealer also explained that they didn’t even like milk and apples, that they were doing it for their own health so they could keep healthy...
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...Through a lack of education, the animals became unable to detect the slow progressing power Napoleon was establishing over them. Boxer is the most nieve of them all. He admired Napoleon, who was educated, and appeared so knowledgeable and practical. He worked excessively hard and always quoted “I will work harder” (77). Boxer was extremely uneducated, and although he tried “[he] could not go past the letter D” (23). Through this lack of education Boxer believed what he was told, for he was unable to know anything else. He also admired those of a higher education like the pigs and longed to be like them. For this reason, Boxer was unable to detect the power Napoleon was slowly establishing over the Animal Farm. Many people of the American society are also uneducated and become nieve to their surroundings, similar to the actions of Boxer. Often the immigrants that come to America are very uneducated in the American language. Through this lack of education they are very vulnerable and often believe everything that they are told because they have not learned otherwise. They look up to the educated people of society who have become so successful, and long to be like them. For this reason, they often do everything they are told in hopes of becoming successful and educated in their life. Yet, due to their lack of education, they are often taken advantage of in their work through unjust salaries and work hours. Boxer displays this same pattern of being taken advantage of with Napoleon...
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...George Orwell who wrote for political purpose was for people to see history a little clearer. Not many people have a chance to read an allegory which for “Animal Farm’ is the Russian Revolution. In the three publications, the author’s political and artistic use was to understand rules according to the article “Politics and the English Language”. These thought provoking book, “Animal Farm”, as dependent on the revolution where these animals almost impersonate the dictators and working people which makes you understand the story a little better. As for Orwell’s point of view, it was to see if the audience can comprehend what is really behind these hard working animals. On the surface George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm” is about a group of neglected...
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...Absolute Power and Corruption in Animal Farm Idealistic leaders can become corrupt because of the influence that absolute power can have on one’s morals. This pattern constantly repeats itself throughout history because of mankind’s ignorance to the past. Animal Farm represents the Russian revolution and the events and actions that took place. As Napoleon, Snowball, and Old Major evolve and show the effects of having power, is it obvious to see how absolute power corrupts potentially great leaders. Napoleon, an overall strong leader, lets power take over his views and morals for ultimate corruption. After Old Major dies, Napoleon is fortunate to be one of the next renowned leaders for the farm and soon to be a leader for the rebellion. As time passes, Napoleon experiences the luxuries and the benefits that come with having power— the power is now beginning to go to his head. He begins eating much food, sleeping on a bed, and wearing clothes (all of which the animals swore never to do in animalism). Napoleon is beginning to think of himself above all others rather than as still an equal. At one point in the book, Napoleon sell the loyal and hardworking boxer to a factory for alcohol. This goes to prove that he only cared about what he wanted, not his hard working citizen. By many events and actions done by Napoleon, it is easy to see how Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin. “Stalin was the undisputed dictator of USSR.” As Stalin did, Napoleon disposes of anything...
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...George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm is about miserable animals on a farm who rebel against their evil owner, Jones, and the pigs gain power, but only to be back where they were and worse. On the surface, Orwell wrote Animal Farm in response to show how others abuse power to the individuals who cannot rebel however, under the surface he refers back to the Russian Revolutionary War. The author’s use of anthropomorphism and common diction lead us to believe he intended the novel to be read by the “everyday man” or lay person. Orwell wrote the text in order to show how, when someone has power, it can be absolute corrupted absolutely. The author uses a detached narrative point of view as they unfold in the story; the text is in third person limited. While he uses several stylistic devices in Animal Farm to achieve his purpose, although the two that impacts his purpose is symbolism and irony. Ultimately, the tone in the narrative shifts from one of hope to one of despair as Orwell leaves his tragic tale of the animals rebellion....
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...Animal Farm is George Orwell’s allegory in which every character and situation to make a point for real life characters and situations. Orwell being born in the twentieth-century created “some of the sharpest satirical fiction,” said by Biography. Addressing major political movements of his time such as imperialism, communism, and fascism all while including his personal. Opinion about each political movement was not necessarily allowed during the twentieth century. Living life as a son from a British civil servant, Orwell moved from India after birth to England when he went to boarding school. In 1911 Orwell experienced England’s class system while attending St. Cyprian a costal town of Eastbourne. While attending school Orwell noticed the...
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...who are. The book Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegorical fiction reflecting events leading up to the Russian Revolution, and Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Some of the leaders in the book Animal Farm, emulate this quote by using certain tactics to disrupt normalcy to advance their own personal agendas and interests. Exceptional leadership was demonstrated initially when a goal was set for the group of animals to obtain together, but was later dismantled as self absorbed leaders rose to power. As new leaders...
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...In all of Animal Farm, there is no shortage of deceitful and otherwise unsavory characters. The greater majority of these villains revelled in their manipulative ways, and took advantage of their power at every point possible. Characters like Napoleon harshly abused the animals that trusted them, and he did so simply to make his already opulent life even more lavish. In this story there is a single character whose motives are not as clear cut as the pigs, or any other deceitful group. Moses the raven’s part in George Orwell’s Animal Farm might of been smaller, but his deceit, is unlike any other animal on Manor Farm. The entirety of Moses’s deceit is his constant championing of “Sugarcandy Mountain.” Upon first glance his advocation of this...
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