Animal Farm Responses:
Response #1:
How are the pigs and their role in the governance of Animal Farm a symbol for more educated and more intelligent members of society that are required to do little physical labour?
In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the author uses the animals and the roles that they play in the story as symbols for different classes of people in a real society. The role that a particular species assumes in Animal Farm is closely related to the real characteristics of that animal. This is clear about the pigs throughout the story. Pigs are considered to be one of the most intelligent animals and of the animals that appear in Animal Farm they are the most intelligent. The high status of the pigs in Animal Farm is established …show more content…
The different species present in Animal Farm by George Orwell are used as symbols for different social classes and also people with different abilities both physically and mentally. Working class people are represented by all of the animals that rank below the pigs and the dogs. Specifically, weaker people that are less physically capable than most are represented by the smaller animals in Animal Farm being the birds, hens and so forth. While there is little specific detail about the intellect of the birds it can be assumed that they are of low intelligence similar to the larger working class animals. Like the larger working class animals such as the horses and sheep the pigs take advantage of their inferior brain power to con them into doing physical labour. The lack of intelligence among the birds is affirmed when they question the “four legs good, two legs bad” policy because as birds they appear to walk on two legs. It would seem that raising questions would denote a fair amount of intelligence however the incredible ease with which they are convinced that they are wrong proves the pigs’ superior intelligence. Making use of this superior intelligence the pigs are able to marginalize another group of animals in an effort to continue in their abstinence from physical work. In this way George Orwell uses the birds as a symbol for weak members of society that are taken advantage of much like the Jews in the Holocaust or anyone who follows the instructions of an automated phone call informing one that they have won a
Response #1:
How are the pigs and their role in the governance of Animal Farm a symbol for more educated and more intelligent members of society that are required to do little physical labour?
In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the author uses the animals and the roles that they play in the story as symbols for different classes of people in a real society. The role that a particular species assumes in Animal Farm is closely related to the real characteristics of that animal. This is clear about the pigs throughout the story. Pigs are considered to be one of the most intelligent animals and of the animals that appear in Animal Farm they are the most intelligent. The high status of the pigs in Animal Farm is established …show more content…
The different species present in Animal Farm by George Orwell are used as symbols for different social classes and also people with different abilities both physically and mentally. Working class people are represented by all of the animals that rank below the pigs and the dogs. Specifically, weaker people that are less physically capable than most are represented by the smaller animals in Animal Farm being the birds, hens and so forth. While there is little specific detail about the intellect of the birds it can be assumed that they are of low intelligence similar to the larger working class animals. Like the larger working class animals such as the horses and sheep the pigs take advantage of their inferior brain power to con them into doing physical labour. The lack of intelligence among the birds is affirmed when they question the “four legs good, two legs bad” policy because as birds they appear to walk on two legs. It would seem that raising questions would denote a fair amount of intelligence however the incredible ease with which they are convinced that they are wrong proves the pigs’ superior intelligence. Making use of this superior intelligence the pigs are able to marginalize another group of animals in an effort to continue in their abstinence from physical work. In this way George Orwell uses the birds as a symbol for weak members of society that are taken advantage of much like the Jews in the Holocaust or anyone who follows the instructions of an automated phone call informing one that they have won a