Animal Farm By George Orwell
George Orwell’s lower class upbringing, positioned him to understand and challenge the political ideologies at the time, through satirical writings. Orwell used the allegorical novel Animal Farm to depict the shift in ideologies, from capitalism into socialism and then communism. Orwell exploits genre and aesthetic features to position and invite the reader to accept his personal perspectives of the tyrannical leader, Joseph Stalin and the cyclical Russian Revolution. The author successfully achieves this through depicting; the manipulation of the weaker members of society through propaganda and education; by ruling through enforcement and fear; and how the revolution was cyclical and ineffective.
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The battle of the cowshed and the Russian Revolution both originated with intentions of equality and improving the quality of life. Both revolutions ultimately ended up where they began. The seven commandments were articulated at the beginning of the fable by the pigs, and were the basic rules of animalism. The commandments signified equality amongst the animals and the hatred they carried toward the selfish villainous humans. The first commandment ‘whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy’ (15) inferred that all humans were enemies to the animals and pose a threat to equality. As the plot progresses, so does the pigs perspective and their obsession with power. This obsession results in the pig’s desirability to become human and adapt their way of life, therefore opposing the seven commandments. Toward the end, all the commandments had been adjusted to suit the ever-changing attitude of the pigs and summarised into one ‘all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’ (90). These adjustments reinstate that the hypocritical pigs had become the villainous humans they once despised. Orwell positioned the reader to acknowledge, that the revolutions in theory preached an improved equal lifestyle. But ultimately they were cyclical as power-affected decision-making and deflected the original values and beliefs and the living conditions were as dire as
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The battle of the cowshed and the Russian Revolution both originated with intentions of equality and improving the quality of life. Both revolutions ultimately ended up where they began. The seven commandments were articulated at the beginning of the fable by the pigs, and were the basic rules of animalism. The commandments signified equality amongst the animals and the hatred they carried toward the selfish villainous humans. The first commandment ‘whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy’ (15) inferred that all humans were enemies to the animals and pose a threat to equality. As the plot progresses, so does the pigs perspective and their obsession with power. This obsession results in the pig’s desirability to become human and adapt their way of life, therefore opposing the seven commandments. Toward the end, all the commandments had been adjusted to suit the ever-changing attitude of the pigs and summarised into one ‘all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’ (90). These adjustments reinstate that the hypocritical pigs had become the villainous humans they once despised. Orwell positioned the reader to acknowledge, that the revolutions in theory preached an improved equal lifestyle. But ultimately they were cyclical as power-affected decision-making and deflected the original values and beliefs and the living conditions were as dire as