Animal Farm, by George Orwell, was published 70 years ago, and written as an allegory the Bolshevik revolution, which took place about a century ago. One would expect for book with a theme dating back to 100 years earlier to die out, but it continues to be read in several countries, and is even required reading in most American schools. Instead of fizzling out to not much more than a memory, Animal Farm has instead become increasingly relevant in the past couple of years. Animal Farm still remains relevant today because there are still places in the world that resemble the fictional creations of Orwell.
History often tends to repeat itself. Though events similar to that of the Bolshevik revolution are no longer present in Russia today, there …show more content…
The pigs, establishing themselves as the higher and more intelligent class, step up and fill the roles humans once held. Snowball and Napoleon, the two behind the act of rebelling against humans, were now to supervise and regulate Animal Farm.
The pigs, now accustomed to being the highest social class in a supposedly equal society, slowly take more power and begin to bend the rules for their own interest. Though their actions not yet necessarily harmful, the pigs are beginning to establish that they are superior to those under their rule.
Eventually, little by little the pigs, especially Napoleon, take more and more power from the other animals, and hand it over to themselves. The seven commandment the pigs had made once said that no animal was to be able to wear clothes, sleep in a bed or drink alcohol, in order to discourage human-like behavior. Napoleon and the other pigs, however, begin to use human items like clothes and beds. They have even begun to drink alcohol. None of the other animals are allowed to engage in these activities, while Napoleon goes as far as to alter the commandments to benefit himself and the other pigs. For example, the commandment that once read "No animal shall sleep in a bed " was fixed by Napoleon to "No animal shall sleep in a bed with
History often tends to repeat itself. Though events similar to that of the Bolshevik revolution are no longer present in Russia today, there …show more content…
The pigs, establishing themselves as the higher and more intelligent class, step up and fill the roles humans once held. Snowball and Napoleon, the two behind the act of rebelling against humans, were now to supervise and regulate Animal Farm.
The pigs, now accustomed to being the highest social class in a supposedly equal society, slowly take more power and begin to bend the rules for their own interest. Though their actions not yet necessarily harmful, the pigs are beginning to establish that they are superior to those under their rule.
Eventually, little by little the pigs, especially Napoleon, take more and more power from the other animals, and hand it over to themselves. The seven commandment the pigs had made once said that no animal was to be able to wear clothes, sleep in a bed or drink alcohol, in order to discourage human-like behavior. Napoleon and the other pigs, however, begin to use human items like clothes and beds. They have even begun to drink alcohol. None of the other animals are allowed to engage in these activities, while Napoleon goes as far as to alter the commandments to benefit himself and the other pigs. For example, the commandment that once read "No animal shall sleep in a bed " was fixed by Napoleon to "No animal shall sleep in a bed with