First, Orwell uses Napoleon to talk about Stalin, the Russian dictator. One of the similarities he highlights is manipulation. Napoleon states, "The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare" (31; ch. 3). In saying that they will "watch over your welfare", Napoleon ensures that the animals will trust him. He exaggerates the "day and night" part to make them feel reliant on him. Stalin does this as he convinces the people of Russia that their previous leader was far worse than he. Another similarity Orwell uses is forced labor. He says, "[I]n August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half" (54; ch. 6). Napoleon often plays mind games with…
Eric Blair, pen name, George Orwell, was a British political essayist and novelist. Along with this he was a passionate socialist, although did not consider the Soviet Union a good representation of what socialism truly is. It is the Soviet Union/Russian Revolution that acts as the general bases of moral outrage Orwell has transformed into art. Leadership in particular is questioned, along with the greed that comes with a corrupt leader. Joseph Stalin is this leader, and Orwell’s strong anti-totalitarian views are expressed in the novel through the satirical technique of an animal fable. To…
Orwell uses literal and figurative ideas and concepts to connect the enemies and “heroes” in Animal Farm to the real humans who took part in the Russian Revolution. By comparing the specific characters like Old Major to Vladimir Lenin it is possible to see the comparisons between something as outlandish like Animal Farm to something as serious as the Russian Revolution. Through satire, the reader can see how ridiculous the Russian Revolution has the potential to seem when it is directly compared to animals who revolt for their rights and take over their farm to run on their…
The story Animal Farm is not just one of farm animals working for human beings. Rather, the tale gives us insight of the Russian Revolution and what occurred during and after the event, the animals functioning as certain historical figures and groups. George Orwell, in Animal Farm condemns and criticizes the actions and injustices that occurred during the reign of Joseph Stalin with the evil character Napoleon. As the farm animals are encountered with no freedom, no equality, and are being slaughtered by their own kind, Orwell illustrates the misinterpretation of a Utopian society and the wrong turn rebellion can take with the wrong leader in charge.…
Although consisting of only 95 pages, Animal Farm is effective in delivering its message. Orwell uses a variety of literary devices in Animal Farm that make it a deceptively complex and effective novel. I have decided to examine three of these literary devices:…
“War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength,” (Orwell 6). George Orwell the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, heavily influenced by the events of World War Two used these slogans in his prediction of what the world could become. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel set in a dystopian society however, to be understood one needs to fully examine world history during the 1900’s. By examining this history one begins to understand Orwell’s prediction of the future. George Orwell’s 1984 portrays the effects generated by the fear of World War Two and prophesizes what the world could be like if that fear is perpetuated.…
Throughout Orwell's literary career, he avidly stood against totalitarian and imperialistic forms of government. His two most famous works (1984 and Animal Farm) both exemplify this point, but at the same time weaken it. These two works were written in protest of those governments, but in a fictional back ground. In Orwell's essay Shooting an Elephant, he uses a personal experience to more clearly emphasize the impact of imperialism at the sociological and psychological level, in conjunction with other literary elements. This symposium of devices help drive the purpose of his paper and ultimately creates a more substantial impact on any reader.…
Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a satire, which criticizes the Russian leaders, government, communism, and world powers. It shows how an uneducable lower class can lead to social corruption in the fictional world and real world. Orwell shows Stalin and Trotsky as the leaders of Russia, in a way, in which the nation of Russia and the world had never seen before; he portrays the world leaders as animals on a farm that wish for a rebellion. Mr. Jones treats the animals on the farm atrociously and consequently they long for freedom from the humans. However, the animals later realize that their freedom was not everything they wish for. The book includes many ideas from the Russian rebellion, the injustice of communism, and the struggles of the lower class in Russia. Animal Farm demonstrates that when many leaders come together and others blindly follow, social corruption and inequality may occur.…
In George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm”, we can see that he makes the characters personify the leaders in the Russian Revolution. He makes a comparison among animal’s characters during the rebellion against the Russian Revolution and Stalin. Orwell shows how people can be fooled by tyrants to believing anything. The animals in the story who act as the main characters may seem like regular animals but upon historical reference these are actually representatives for Communist leaders, such as Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, and others.…
Such as he chooses five different passages that he believes are not good piece of writing because it addresses the issues that we are suffering from in English language. As Orwell states the five examples of (235) that he believes are evidence of bad writing habits, by him stating what he believes about the other writers is only his personal opinion in regards to the issue addressed earlier. He is presenting the bad habits that are misleading in English Language as a social issue, but somehow he is stating what he believes is an issue and what is his take on it. It is more of manipulation because he is a social critique and have also studied political issues, so he knows how to convince people? what they want to hear? How an issue can be addressed? The answer to all these questions lead to a manipulative individual who is extremely convincing. In other words, by stating the issue and solution according to his point of view with such a convincing power lead people to be manipulated by his reasons given for a…
Orwell’s Animal Farm delivers an allegorical novella that satirizes the events surrounding the Stalin era through universal themes such as hope and the abuse of power to unsettle audiences into identifying their own flaws. By critiquing the Russian Revolution, Orwell is able to delve into the core of communism, questioning its motives, applying antithesis and biblical allusions to convey his disgust of the system. The biblical allusion of ‘the seven commandments’ refers to the Decalogue of Moses, which became a symbol of hope for the Jews. However, Orwell communicates its consequences as the pigs, because ‘they were the cleverest of all animals’, manipulate the rules through the exploitation of the other animals’ inability to read properly, his lampoon at the threat of communism. The antithesis of Snowball’s democracy and Napoleon’s dictatorship emphasizes a human’s attraction to power and provides a direct juxtaposition with Russian leaders Trotsky and Stalin, reinforcing his critiquing of the movement through the actions of the two pigs. Using propaganda as a lampoon at the corruption of communism, Orwell demonstrates the desperation of the minor animals as the pigs exploit their…
To illustrate his point, Orwell uses writings from two professors, an essay on psychology in politics, a communist pamphlet, and a letter in Tribune, all of which consisting of two common faults: staleness of imagery and lack of precision. He states that political writing is indeed bad writing, creating a generalization for us to understand that speeches made by politicians are never “fresh, vivid, home-made…” speeches. What is intriguing, is that having a politically based, homemade speech, gives the speaker a distant presence in his speaking. He gives the depiction that those who read political based work, knows that it is not the true feelings of himself, but of the one who wrote the speech. The different uses of pretentious diction, meaningless words, dying metaphors, and operators, or verbal false limbs, allows the writer to dictate what the audience is able to comprehend in the writing.…
Have you ever seen the cruel things that a dictator ever done? Sadly, people over the world have been ruled by a dictator, like Russia. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the animals start a rebellion against Mr. Jones, with the pigs in charge of the rest of the animals, they have to suffer trying to stay alive. The story demonstrates that weakness can be dominated by strength, fear, and trickery. George Orwell uses animals as an exciting way to show what happens in the Soviet Russia.…
The famous book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is a short story, symbolizing the time under Joseph Stalin’s rule. Orwell focuses on the characteristics of his characters to relive the tragic years of this communism. In his fable, the pigs are the ruling class of society without the farm; the leader of this society is a pig named Napoleon, who is to represent Stalin and his cruel personality. The pigs are able to control the thoughts and actions of his subjects through strong use of rhetorical devices such as metaphors, amplifications, antanagoges, and anaphoras. By using these devices, the pigs were able to keep control of Animal Farm and persuade the emotions of the animals towards thinking they were wise and kind enough to rule over them.…
This study aims to determine that George Orwell's Animal Farm is a political satire which was written to criticise totalitarian regimes and particularly Stalin's practices in Russia. In order to provide background information that would reveal causes led Orwell to write Animal Farm, Chapter one is devoted to a brief summary of the progress of author's life and significannot…