Animal Farm George Orwell Analysis

George Orwell and His Ways on Critiquing in Animal Farm In the past, the Russian Revolution is falling into action throughout these events in Animal Farm. George Orwell, the author of the novel, writes on how he feels about the October and February Revolutions. He uses characters to portray the history in the people and events during the revolution. These characters allow readers to know how George reflected the purpose of the historic event. Three major characters used are Boxer, Squealer, and the sheep. Orwell critiques society through Boxer, Squealer, and the sheep with their actions, characterization, and dialogue in the novel. The first example is Boxer. Boxer, the horse on the farm, represents the workers during the Russian Revolution.
He would do anything to be the one to take power over others. To gain power, he makes other animals believe that the right things are in the wrong. Hitler, in the revolution, made everyone believe the iron race was better, which is compared to Napoleon wiggling the belief that pig blood was better into the other animals’ brains. This action is portrays how Orwell could not accept how many people could be so gullible: “Comrade!...a most terrible thing has been discovered. Snowball has sold himself to Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, who is now plotting to attack us and take our farm away from us!” (Orwell 79). It goes to show how people tend to believe whatever they are told. For example, Hitler would said to people one simple good thing about Germany followed by many negative lies to keep himself in power. George Orwell disagrees with how oblivious people were being even when Hitler would shout out the most out of this world statements. Adolf Hitler had taken advantage of many innocent people in this world. He always told them things to make the bad seem okay, when it was never okay. Other than those reasons, people often did not pay good attention to Hitler’s speeches because they were content thinking they finally had a leader to change their future on good terms. Squealer, in Animal Farm, convinces the animals that boxer was sent to be helped in an animal home by lying, and taking the animal’s lack in knowledge to his advantage: “I was at his bedside at the very last. And at the end, almost too weak to speak, he whispered in my ear that his soul sorrow was the have passed on before the windmill was finished ‘Forward, Comrades!” (Orwell 115). This pig was able to get the farm to believe that Boxer was being helped with the use of propaganda, when really he was being hurt. Squealer was good at making things up. His use propaganda to mess with the animals in the novel portrays