George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ includes many prominent themes throughout the novel, some of which include idealism, naivety and acceptance. The novel, ‘Animal Farm’ is an allegory about power and political systems. The story is set on a farm with animals representing the hierarchy. The farmer is overthrown and various classes of animals assume authority over the others.
In the novel Orwell’s opinion on idealism is displayed in a variety of places. He depicts idealism as a stupid concept, a concept where dreams are met with actuality.
At the beginning of the book in the boar, Old Major’s speech he says “Among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle” his words are not words of a wise man, they are the words of a dreamer. Old Major was talking about an ideal world, he believed that all …show more content…
Acceptance is the conclusion of all arguments. In the novel the animals learn to accept that some things can’t be the way they want it to be. George Orwell adopts the view that people must accept things for how they are in dictatorship; they cannot change them, so they must accept them.
During chapter seven one of the carthorses, Boxer talks about how a statement is wrong and unjust, but he stumbles upon just accepting it; “Ahh that is different!” said Boxer. “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right” Boxer realized that sometimes its easier to just stop fighting for a ‘silly’ little thing, some things aren’t worth fighting for. He accepted that no matter what he said he wasn’t going to win the argument, and it could ultimately be dangerous for him to fight someone in such high power.
Orwell says in the final chapter “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer— except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.” Once the animals realized that some things can’t be changed, they settled and things seemed ‘richer,’ they were at
In the novel Orwell’s opinion on idealism is displayed in a variety of places. He depicts idealism as a stupid concept, a concept where dreams are met with actuality.
At the beginning of the book in the boar, Old Major’s speech he says “Among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle” his words are not words of a wise man, they are the words of a dreamer. Old Major was talking about an ideal world, he believed that all …show more content…
Acceptance is the conclusion of all arguments. In the novel the animals learn to accept that some things can’t be the way they want it to be. George Orwell adopts the view that people must accept things for how they are in dictatorship; they cannot change them, so they must accept them.
During chapter seven one of the carthorses, Boxer talks about how a statement is wrong and unjust, but he stumbles upon just accepting it; “Ahh that is different!” said Boxer. “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right” Boxer realized that sometimes its easier to just stop fighting for a ‘silly’ little thing, some things aren’t worth fighting for. He accepted that no matter what he said he wasn’t going to win the argument, and it could ultimately be dangerous for him to fight someone in such high power.
Orwell says in the final chapter “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer— except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.” Once the animals realized that some things can’t be changed, they settled and things seemed ‘richer,’ they were at