Situational Irony In Animal Farm
The author Gunter Grass wrote "If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.” What this means to me is that a utopia is not all it seems to be. If you are living the exact same life everyday and never have any obstacles to overcome than you live a very boring life.
Animal Farm is a book by the author George Orwell. It is a fable about animals trying to create a utopia but instead making a war.
It as an allegory based on the Russian Revolution. The animals wanted to be free so they started a rebellion against the humans, but the animals chosen to be leaders ( …show more content…
In fact, some of the characters in the story personify people who were a part of the Russian Revolution. Napoleon is based on Joseph Stalin, Snowball is based on Leon Trotsky, Old Major is based on Karl Marx, and Mr. Jones is based on Tsar Nicholas II. Animal Farm starts out with a situational irony when the animals are very unhappy with the humans and decide to take over the farm and run it themselves. The two pigs Napoleon and Snowball assume the roles of leadership but do not get along very well. This is a situational irony because it is unexpected and ironic for animals to be running a farm. There is also some dramatic irony because the reader knows that the animals are plotting against Farmer Jones, but Farmer Jones does not. The idea of a revolution forms after Old Major brings all the animals together to speak of a dream he had where all animals live together with no humans to oppress or control them. This idea is based on Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto which laid out the basic principles of what we now call communism. Both dreams were seriously flawed and laid out an idea but not how to fulfill or determine what happens after. The animals then took leadership and made the 7 commandments which they were to live by. These rules were supposed to keep order and civilization and to help create their own
Animal Farm is a book by the author George Orwell. It is a fable about animals trying to create a utopia but instead making a war.
It as an allegory based on the Russian Revolution. The animals wanted to be free so they started a rebellion against the humans, but the animals chosen to be leaders ( …show more content…
In fact, some of the characters in the story personify people who were a part of the Russian Revolution. Napoleon is based on Joseph Stalin, Snowball is based on Leon Trotsky, Old Major is based on Karl Marx, and Mr. Jones is based on Tsar Nicholas II. Animal Farm starts out with a situational irony when the animals are very unhappy with the humans and decide to take over the farm and run it themselves. The two pigs Napoleon and Snowball assume the roles of leadership but do not get along very well. This is a situational irony because it is unexpected and ironic for animals to be running a farm. There is also some dramatic irony because the reader knows that the animals are plotting against Farmer Jones, but Farmer Jones does not. The idea of a revolution forms after Old Major brings all the animals together to speak of a dream he had where all animals live together with no humans to oppress or control them. This idea is based on Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto which laid out the basic principles of what we now call communism. Both dreams were seriously flawed and laid out an idea but not how to fulfill or determine what happens after. The animals then took leadership and made the 7 commandments which they were to live by. These rules were supposed to keep order and civilization and to help create their own