Animal Farm Satire Essay

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Animal Farm is a book of political satire that takes place on a typical English farm in when England was still in the Agricultural Age. It was written by George Orwell in 1954, August 17. The particular farm is called Manor Farm. The story also uses a third-person narrator to comment on events indirectly and how animals perceive certain events. Our tale begins in in the big barn where Old Major, ( a prize winning pig) has gathered all the animals to relate to them one last message before he goes. He relates to all present that all animals under human care are mistreated and should be liberated. He tells them how rebellion is the only way to achieve this and soon after he dies. Under the leadership of Squealer, Napolean, and Snowball the …show more content…
Squealer comes out and reports that the last law Napoleon wishes to pass is to ban alcohol. However he recovers and gets manuals on how to brew whiskey and changes the law to, “No animal can drink alcohol to excess.”
Napoleon wants to build a school for his piglets and distracts the animals from all the hardships by making them think of all their achievements. Napoleon declare Animal Farm a Republic and he gets unanimously voted in.
Boxer collapses from exhausting himself one day and Napoleon promises him to be taken to a Veterinarian but instead sends him off to a glue factory for extra money. The only one who sees this is boxer’s best friend, Benjamin. Napoleon reports that Boxer died in the hospital and that his last words glorified Napoleon. Napoleon offers to make a banquet in Boxer’s memory but the pigs by lots of whiskey.
Years go by and when the population increases the pigs and dogs continue to do only manual labor while the other animals are subjugated. Squealer takes the little animals out and teaches them the song, “4-legs are good, but 2-legs are better.” The other animals are terrified and they observe as the Animal farm becomes Manor Farm once more and the flag is replaced with a standard green

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