Animal Farm Literary Analysis
Intro Hook
Animal Farm is a novella written by George Orwell. In this story the animals want freedom from Mr. Jones, the farmer, so they rebel and take the farm for themselves. The pigs start taking over and brainwash and manipulate them by using double speak. After a while it’s back to normal with one animal more powerful than the others. The utopia that they wanted in the beginning is reversed and the pigs are just the same as Jones. This novella is written as an allegory to Soviet Russia. Each main character is representing a leader or group of people from that time. It shows how the animals on the farm, are affected by Animalism which is the same thing that happened with the people and political leaders …show more content…
Orwell uses many types of irony to make this novella more emotional and intellectual for the reader. Some examples of different types of irony being used are verbal and situational irony. The verbal irony is mostly played out by Squealer, a pig who’s job is to keep the animal’s in line and is basically Napoleon’s second in command. Squealer is always confronting and questioning the animals and stating things when he actually means the complete opposite. “quote from book” The situational irony is probably the bigger of the two because in a way it is what Animal Farm is all about. When the animals decide to have the revolution and throw out the humans, they are hoping to build a better society where “all animals are equal”. Instead, the opposite happens and the animals end up right where they started. The first sign of this is when Squealer announces that Napoleon is dying after there had been loud noises and crashing from the farm house the night before. Then later that day he says that Napoleon is on his way to recovery and Whymper is instructed to go and buy booklets on brewing and distilling. This is when you know that things aren’t going as they should and that Napoleon is just turning into another drunk, just like Jones. These types of ironies help the reader to better understand Orwell’s thoughts about the Russian Revolution.
Intro Hook
Animal Farm is a novella written by George Orwell. In this story the animals want freedom from Mr. Jones, the farmer, so they rebel and take the farm for themselves. The pigs start taking over and brainwash and manipulate them by using double speak. After a while it’s back to normal with one animal more powerful than the others. The utopia that they wanted in the beginning is reversed and the pigs are just the same as Jones. This novella is written as an allegory to Soviet Russia. Each main character is representing a leader or group of people from that time. It shows how the animals on the farm, are affected by Animalism which is the same thing that happened with the people and political leaders …show more content…
Orwell uses many types of irony to make this novella more emotional and intellectual for the reader. Some examples of different types of irony being used are verbal and situational irony. The verbal irony is mostly played out by Squealer, a pig who’s job is to keep the animal’s in line and is basically Napoleon’s second in command. Squealer is always confronting and questioning the animals and stating things when he actually means the complete opposite. “quote from book” The situational irony is probably the bigger of the two because in a way it is what Animal Farm is all about. When the animals decide to have the revolution and throw out the humans, they are hoping to build a better society where “all animals are equal”. Instead, the opposite happens and the animals end up right where they started. The first sign of this is when Squealer announces that Napoleon is dying after there had been loud noises and crashing from the farm house the night before. Then later that day he says that Napoleon is on his way to recovery and Whymper is instructed to go and buy booklets on brewing and distilling. This is when you know that things aren’t going as they should and that Napoleon is just turning into another drunk, just like Jones. These types of ironies help the reader to better understand Orwell’s thoughts about the Russian Revolution.