Examples Of Totalitarianism In Animal Farm By George Orwell

The book Animal farm written by George orwell is a clear representation of a political parody of a totalitarian society in which a dictator rules everything under his control. Animal farm starts when the animals of "manor" farm overthrew their abusive human master out of the farm and after gaining the farm, the animals are led by the pigs as they gained control over the farm they made laws that made everyone feel equal and this was the beginning of a communist society but by chapter 4 the pigs started to dominate over the farm animals , the pigs had more food rations than the other animals and also started to violate all the rules and still managed to make the animals believing that it was their misunderstanding of thinking that the pig
This is the typical hallmark that every dictator uses to bring people under his supremacy. This is an effective method because when people are feared of the consequences of raising questions against the decisions made by the leader therefore making easier for the leader to manipulate his total control over the people and treat them according to his standards.This is exactly the mockery of what had happened in Animal farm where Napoleon uses the nine ferocious dogs to get his decisions manipulated without any rebellion against it to illustrate “The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs”(Orwell.25) . Here Orwell symbolizes the dogs as a fear factor within the animals which made it easy for Napoleon to retain his position as the leader of the animal farm and also the dog’s fear prevented all the rebellion against the authority of Napoleon. Orwell mentions this as the typical hallmark method for all totalitarian government to bring the society under their sovereignty and