Often times people arrange a goal for themselves or for the people around them. Although, in some cases, they set too much of a high aim for themselves to achieve. Therefore, this leads to them underestimating their goal, and it backfires because they think too little of it. George Orwell’s Animal Farm depicts the lives of animals that live in a farm in England with an inattentive farmer, Mr.Jones. Old Major, the oldest animal on the farm, sparks an idea to rebel against all humans in order to be liberated from mistreatment. The rebellion originates from Old Major who aspires for a world where animals live contentedly with sufficient food and no labor. Ultimately, the animal’s revolution is unsuccessful due to attempting to create a utopia. At first, the animals want to overthrow their negligent farmer in order to establish their perfect community. Mr.Jones is a alcoholic farmer, and he fails to properly close the gates on each animal's’ space. Immediately following this, the animals privately converse under Old Major’s supervision. Old Major recites his dream about how the lives of animals are completely unalike from his dream. According to his dream, the animals are not burdened with work, and the are living at ease with their other “comrades.” The word “comrade” is a way to address each animal since they are all equal. Old Major encourages the animals to riot until they achieve his dream. Here, Old Major illustrates a picture into the animal’s mind of a perfect society for animals. A society where animals are free from humans, and they have the farm to themselves. Therefore, he is referring to an animal utopia because he describes his dream as a paradise, which is what the animals yearn for. The disaster starts to happen when the animals come into the revolution motivated to make Old Major’s dream of an animal promise land a reality. Old Major passes away but not without leaving an impression into the animal’s minds. The animals are anticipating for the revolution, but they don’t know when it is the perfect time to attack. The pigs are immediately the leaders to the animals, so they regulate the animals. The pigs utilize Old Major’s teachings and applies it to their system. The pigs teach themselves how to read and write by using Mr.Jones’ books as a guide. Their literacy helps in the creation of the Seven Commandments where the laws are permanent, and the animals must follow these rules because the pigs writes it on the wall with white paint. As one can see, the animals are progressively building the foundation of their animal eden through the preparation of revolting against the humans and fabricating their regulations. However, the animals lack knowledge on how to maintain the farm which prohibits them from completing their dreamland . Napoleon expels Snowball out of leadership. He runs Snowball out of the farm by getting a group of rabid dogs chasing after him. Before Snowball gets ejected from the farm, he shares his idea about building a windmill. Snowball stresses the importance of the windmill, as it is a labor-reducer to
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Napoleon manages to gain full power over the animals through his cunning tactics. He uses his spokesperson, Squealer, to manipulate the animal’s mind. For example, the animals are suffering from the shortage of food due to a harsh winter. Napoleon makes Squealer publicly announce that their food is actually increasing. Squealer uses statistics such as percentages to convey an argument that they are eating well, but in reality they are not. Moreover, he uses propaganda to influence the animals. Napoleon knows that the animals are anticipating for an ideal farm. A part of making their farm successful is by establish a theme song. Napoleon hires Minimus to compose a poem. The poem is called Comrade Napoleon which dedicates Napoleon’s work as a leader. Though, the poem is very misleading because the animals are living horribly with barely enough food, and Napoleon is living in a big house for himself. A takeaway from this is that a utopia will never flourish. Once the power is in the grasp of someone they will eventually become fraudulent. Therefore, the revolution fails because the desire for an animal eden ends up dysfunctioning which ruined the attempted
Napoleon manages to gain full power over the animals through his cunning tactics. He uses his spokesperson, Squealer, to manipulate the animal’s mind. For example, the animals are suffering from the shortage of food due to a harsh winter. Napoleon makes Squealer publicly announce that their food is actually increasing. Squealer uses statistics such as percentages to convey an argument that they are eating well, but in reality they are not. Moreover, he uses propaganda to influence the animals. Napoleon knows that the animals are anticipating for an ideal farm. A part of making their farm successful is by establish a theme song. Napoleon hires Minimus to compose a poem. The poem is called Comrade Napoleon which dedicates Napoleon’s work as a leader. Though, the poem is very misleading because the animals are living horribly with barely enough food, and Napoleon is living in a big house for himself. A takeaway from this is that a utopia will never flourish. Once the power is in the grasp of someone they will eventually become fraudulent. Therefore, the revolution fails because the desire for an animal eden ends up dysfunctioning which ruined the attempted