Animal Farm Failure Essay

Martin Luther King said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” He was the rightful leader of this cause, and that made this movement much more successful than it would have been without him. But, was this the case on Animal Farm? After the rebellion, the pigs rose discreetly into power. The pigs were not the right leaders for Animal Farm, although it was destined to fail, but good leadership would have given a more promising chance. As mentioned before Animal Farm was destined to fail because, the pigs were too selfish, most of the animals did not have enough skills or the correct limbs to perform the farm …show more content…
Other animals on the farm wanted to learn but were slow at it. The strong cart-horse Boxer, was very determined to work, with one of his maxims being, “I will work harder.” This was a great advantage in the building of the windmill with Boxer’s unwillingness to give up. In other areas though, Boxer did give up. In chapter three the uneasiness of learning was focused on Boxer. To begin helping Boxer and the other animals learn how to read and write, the pigs started teaching them the alphabet. This was a struggle for Boxer and some of the other animals. On page 33 Orwell wrote, “Clover [the other cart-horse] learnt the whole alphabet, but could not put words together. Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof, then would stand there staring at the letters with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might to remember what came next and never succeeding. On several occasions indeed he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.” He gave up after the first four letters. This goes to show how difficult it was for the animals to adapt to this human-like quality. Another human quality the animals were forced to adapt to was harvest, in order to survive. Animals like the pigs were too selfish and preeminent to do …show more content…
As they changed the rules, they added things. The pigs changed the fifth commandment, “No animal shall drink alcohol,” to “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess” Along with this and other examples like beds with or without sheets, the pigs changed the rules selfishly to their needs pushing them more toward becoming humans than any animal could have ever imagined. In the beginning of Animal Farm, the animals could have burnt the farmhouse down, but the pigs discovered things like books inside and began to learn, creating a school just like humans had. With the farmhouse still there the pigs began to creep toward their ultimate goal of living in it. As they discovered new things and “previously created files” the pigs were able to rally the animals and get them fired up for Napoleon’s cause. After this, whisky was a giant leap toward becoming humans and it reflected right back on what Jones had done before the animals had kicked him out. The whisky quickly became a segway out of the minimal failures in Animal Farm for the pigs, but hastily being a huge factor in its collapse. If items like the whisky or even the entire farmhouse were not still in place, the pigs may not have changed so drastically and quickly into the human-pigs they always were on the inside, at least delaying the destiny of this animal-run