Paradox In Animal Farm

aturally animals do what it takes to survive. Only when there survival is seriously threatened do animal change their habits.This is even more true for domesticated animals. Some domesticated animals live only to be later killed. In Animal Farm, George Orwell uses the paradox of domesticated animals rebelling against what they are naturally known to symbolize how mistreated the russian people were. The animals rebelling against the humans is paradoxical. It shows how upset the animals were with the way they were treated by the farmer. In Paul Schaefer’s Article he states “Adopting animals as if they were members of the family was not how life on a real farm worked. Like their children, my parents also developed attachments. My mother was very …show more content…
After explaining the basic plot to Animal Farm in her book George Orwell Roberta Kalechofsky writes “Napoleon descends into the psychopathic suspicion that is said to have characterized Stalin’s last years. Investigations are made into the loyalty of some of the animals, and there are many who come forward and confess to collusion with Snowball.”(Kalechofsky 106) Orwell was connecting real people’s actions as a basis for his characters. Joseph Stalin’s actions in the real world mirror some of the actions made by the characters in Animal farm. The farmer’s actions mirror previous tzars of russia acted. The farmer did not truly care for the animals in his farm he only used them for profit. On page 11 Orwell writes “No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the habits of Man are evil.” The animals viewed everything the humans did as evil. This mirrors the thoughts of the the russian citizens involved in the russian revolution. The lower classes of russian society believed that any other form of government other than their new adopted communism was