Question

Using the excerpt above as a starting point, answer the following prompt in a well-rounded essay of at least 300 words. The animals’ revolution began as an uprising against the cruel treatment of Mr. Jones, with the pigs leading the crusade for equality. However, through the course of the novel, there is a significant shift. Describe, in detail, this shift and its irony. How does the excerpt above represent that shift? How does the change on the farm reflect Orwell’s larger allegorical message?

Answer 1

Answer & Explanation:

Animal Farm is an allegory to the Russian Revolution. The Russian Revolution was the overthrown of one tyrant, Czar Nicholas II, and eventual replacement with another, Josef Stalin. Since George Orwell wrote Animal Farm to model and critique the Russian Revolution. In the story, the animals decide to revolt against the cruel Mr. Jones, on account of Old Major's vision that things could be better. Jones is easily overthrown since he has become an inefficient and ineffective farmer. The animals; hope for the fair and free society that Old Major told them about now seems closer than ever before. However, there is a subtle distinction between pigs and other animals that proves disastrous. The pigs begin getting special privileges under the guise of protecting the animals from Jones. They claim that only they can govern because the other animals are not smart enough. Once the pigs get established, however, the shift occurs. Snowball and Napoleon had two visions for the farm and kept a check on each other's power. However, Napoleon uses Jessie and Bluebell's puppies to forcefully and violently remove Snowball. With Snowball gone, the democratic processes that had been going on, such as Sunday meetings are abolished and Napoleon becomes a dictator. By the end of the novel, Napoleon has abused power in every way he can, including sending one of his best followers, Boxer the horse, to his death. After the commandments have been removed and replaced with "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS," the animals are no longer surprised at the pigs' tyranny, or even their resemblance to the animals old master, Mr; Jones. The excerpt above shows that any remaining hope for a democratic society has been squelched. There are many examples of irony in this story, just as there are in the Russian Revolution. In both cases, the overarching irony is that people fought for freedom and democracy, but ended up restoring the very repression they were fighting against. By the end of Animal Farm, Napoleon is no different than Jones. He is even more like in Jones in that Boxer's fate, going to the knacker, occurs under Napoleon that same as it would've under Jones.

Answer 2

At the beggining the motive of the animals to start a revolution comes from the mistreat of Mr. Jones, he does a terrible job and left a side the animals.

A wise pig start the tough of start to lead the farm withtout humans involved and the most important: ¨equality for all¨…But something happend, and the wise pig dies.

Everyone thinks that the idea left for the wise pig is perfect, except from a donkey that is very cynical.

Anyway they start the revolution and other pigs asume the leadership because they are the most ¨intelligent¨ animals on the farm, the ¨equality¨ goes down the toilet from that moment and the madness beggin.

A conflict also start to arise between two pigs, Napoleón and Snowball, the first one has the ¨bright¨ idea of not doing anything and just be in charge bossing around, and Snowball in Exchange wants to teach the animals to create a widmill, logically the Snowball idea is better and he wins.

The shift in the history start when in this case the pigs had unlimited access to the powee without bond.

Sadly Napoleón uses bad force against everyone and start to be the ¨boss¨ of the farm, Snowball get out the scene and all the animals start to blame him, animals are against each other, breaking all the pacific rules that once existed between them, the life in the farm is worst everyday, the culminating point is when the pigs decide to kill and old horse, very hard working who is ready to retire.

In Synthesis they ended up being everythin they were against to, they behave like dictatorial humans, the ones that started the mess in a beginning, even they walk in two legs, they even can be worst than them.

With a very simple language the history show us the facts that arise the consumerism, the corruption lead by the hunger in power.