Don’t become a slave to society. In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the author truly showcases how society can get obsessed with leading their citizens and take actions that only benefit themselves. In entirety, “Animal Farm” aims to make us realize that in 2018 American society we have become completely infatuated with focussing on the wrong things such as getting revenge by hurting people or even thinking too hard about how many likes we get on our pictures. Three ways that George Orwell’s novel resembles modern American society are we have made laws and we very rarely actually follow them, the leader believes that he is extremely superior to their citizens and convince them to think in the same way they do, and using fear to manipulate
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In the start of the novel the animals create their Seven Commandments that Snowball, their first leader after they overthrow Jones and his men, explained to be very strict. One law in particular, that the animals obviously disobeyed is, “4. No animal shall sleep in a bed”(Orwell 24). This cite shows that the pigs clearly painted that an animal should never sleep in a human bed. This cite explains itself by being very explicit; you would think everyone would be able to comprehend and remember the rule. On the contrary, later in the story when Muriel recites what she reads on the wall she states, “It says ‘No Animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,’ she announced finally”(Orwell 67). This cite demonstrates that Squealer changed the number four commandment so that he could cover up the fact that the pigs actually …show more content…
The narcissistic leaders also manipulate their people into thinking that they are always right. For example, Napoleon took care of all of the awards that he was able to give, by giving them to himself. “... (for he had recently awarded himself ‘Animal Hero, First Class’ and ‘Animal Hero, Second Class’”(Orwell 82). This citation delineates that Napoleon sees himself so much better than everyone else, that he took away all of the chances for the animals to win awards. This supports my claim because Trump doesn’t take criticism from anyone, and that is most likely because he is too self-absorbed to see that he is wrong. That is how Napoleon and Trump are so indistinguishable. I can deduce that both Napoleon and Donald Trump are overly self-loving and blind to how they might actually be wrong because they are getting caught up in being a leader. They are so focussed on leading their people they may not even realize that they are leading in a negative way. If the two leaders settled down and reflected on how they are completing their jobs, they could repair their wrong-doings as easy as an experienced mechanic can fix a car. Furthermore, in the middle of the text Boxer, the hard working horse, is obviously manipulated by Squealer’s words. “‘Ah, that’s different!’ said Boxer. ‘If
In the start of the novel the animals create their Seven Commandments that Snowball, their first leader after they overthrow Jones and his men, explained to be very strict. One law in particular, that the animals obviously disobeyed is, “4. No animal shall sleep in a bed”(Orwell 24). This cite shows that the pigs clearly painted that an animal should never sleep in a human bed. This cite explains itself by being very explicit; you would think everyone would be able to comprehend and remember the rule. On the contrary, later in the story when Muriel recites what she reads on the wall she states, “It says ‘No Animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,’ she announced finally”(Orwell 67). This cite demonstrates that Squealer changed the number four commandment so that he could cover up the fact that the pigs actually …show more content…
The narcissistic leaders also manipulate their people into thinking that they are always right. For example, Napoleon took care of all of the awards that he was able to give, by giving them to himself. “... (for he had recently awarded himself ‘Animal Hero, First Class’ and ‘Animal Hero, Second Class’”(Orwell 82). This citation delineates that Napoleon sees himself so much better than everyone else, that he took away all of the chances for the animals to win awards. This supports my claim because Trump doesn’t take criticism from anyone, and that is most likely because he is too self-absorbed to see that he is wrong. That is how Napoleon and Trump are so indistinguishable. I can deduce that both Napoleon and Donald Trump are overly self-loving and blind to how they might actually be wrong because they are getting caught up in being a leader. They are so focussed on leading their people they may not even realize that they are leading in a negative way. If the two leaders settled down and reflected on how they are completing their jobs, they could repair their wrong-doings as easy as an experienced mechanic can fix a car. Furthermore, in the middle of the text Boxer, the hard working horse, is obviously manipulated by Squealer’s words. “‘Ah, that’s different!’ said Boxer. ‘If