Oppression In Animal Farm
Revolution against oppression seems like it could only be positive; it can't end badly. Actually, it may be the opposite, at least that's what George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, believes. Orwell believes that revolution against tyranny only ends up with another tyrant because of the way the pigs treat the other animals, how the pigs slowly break the 7 Commandments, and how the pigs end up exactly like the humans in the end.
The way the pigs treated the other animals on the farm was similar to that of a tyrant. They lied, manipulated, and even killed other animals. At one point, the pigs forced some animals to commit to false crimes, “and so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napolean’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones” (Orwell 84). Since the pigs are killing the animals, just like a tyrant would, they can be directly compared to Mr. Jones and the humans …show more content…
The pigs had originally created the 7 Commandments, but one by one they begin breaking then changing them. When Squealer is caught one night next to a spilled paint bucket and a ladder- supposedly changing one of the Commandments- a couple days laer “Muriel...noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was ‘No animals shall drink alcohol,’ but...actually the Commandment read: ‘No animal shall drink alcohol to excess’” (Orwell 109). This occurred right after Napolean was introduced to whiskey. At the beginning, the 7 Commandments were created to prevent the pigs from turning into tyrants like Jones and his men, but because they kept breaking rules, that represents the pigs becoming tyrants as well. By the end they’re no better then Jones himself. In fact, they’re probably more than “no better than
The way the pigs treated the other animals on the farm was similar to that of a tyrant. They lied, manipulated, and even killed other animals. At one point, the pigs forced some animals to commit to false crimes, “and so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napolean’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones” (Orwell 84). Since the pigs are killing the animals, just like a tyrant would, they can be directly compared to Mr. Jones and the humans …show more content…
The pigs had originally created the 7 Commandments, but one by one they begin breaking then changing them. When Squealer is caught one night next to a spilled paint bucket and a ladder- supposedly changing one of the Commandments- a couple days laer “Muriel...noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was ‘No animals shall drink alcohol,’ but...actually the Commandment read: ‘No animal shall drink alcohol to excess’” (Orwell 109). This occurred right after Napolean was introduced to whiskey. At the beginning, the 7 Commandments were created to prevent the pigs from turning into tyrants like Jones and his men, but because they kept breaking rules, that represents the pigs becoming tyrants as well. By the end they’re no better then Jones himself. In fact, they’re probably more than “no better than