Tayler Kolby-Kishbaugh
Lit/Comp 1
Animal Farm: Literary Analysis
‘This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half’(73). George Orwell’s fable, Animal Farm, portrays an excellent view on the Soviet Union and to reveal it’s flaws. A domestic group of animals on the “Manor Farm”, play an important role in the revolution. Old Major, a wise pig, aggregates all animals from, small mice to brimming horses. He says, Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them …show more content…
First there is situational irony, the animals abrogated the humans from the farm so they could run it themselves because they didn't like the ways they were being treated. ‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which’ (139). Yet, they ended up being treated the same ways by their own kind. Second there is dramatic irony, the animals are blind to the alphabet, so the pigs take advantage of their blindness and slowly starts to take over the farms 7 commandments, till there is only one. At last, third, verbal irony is used to infuse dictatorship against the communistic ways. Such as, Squealer reading the commandments to the animals and saying they were the same as before. Another example, that includes all cases of irony, is when boxer went in the van. Squealer assured the other animals he was being taken to the hospital. Only if the animals could have read the alphabet, they would have know that Boxer was taken away by the knackers. Although, how could the animals know the alphabet? That freedom was taken by the
Lit/Comp 1
Animal Farm: Literary Analysis
‘This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half’(73). George Orwell’s fable, Animal Farm, portrays an excellent view on the Soviet Union and to reveal it’s flaws. A domestic group of animals on the “Manor Farm”, play an important role in the revolution. Old Major, a wise pig, aggregates all animals from, small mice to brimming horses. He says, Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them …show more content…
First there is situational irony, the animals abrogated the humans from the farm so they could run it themselves because they didn't like the ways they were being treated. ‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which’ (139). Yet, they ended up being treated the same ways by their own kind. Second there is dramatic irony, the animals are blind to the alphabet, so the pigs take advantage of their blindness and slowly starts to take over the farms 7 commandments, till there is only one. At last, third, verbal irony is used to infuse dictatorship against the communistic ways. Such as, Squealer reading the commandments to the animals and saying they were the same as before. Another example, that includes all cases of irony, is when boxer went in the van. Squealer assured the other animals he was being taken to the hospital. Only if the animals could have read the alphabet, they would have know that Boxer was taken away by the knackers. Although, how could the animals know the alphabet? That freedom was taken by the