Essay On Communism In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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“Animal Farm” by George Orwell is a book that displays how communism is a deficient option for a government, even on a tiny basis such as an animal farm. The way George Orwell displays how communism is a deficient option is writing about a farm, Manor Farm, ran by an abusive and neglectful man named Jones. The animals decide to take over with dreams of communism and equality for all animals. Once they overcome the farm (Renamed Animal Farm) the pigs decide to run the farm on communism, the fear of becoming like humans, and fear of humans and human ways. Soon do they find out that communism does not create a utopia and problems evolve concerning equality of animals. Soon they end up being like humans, their fears come true. The important question …show more content…
Like when the animals found out that the pigs were sleeping in beds, eating from a kitchen, and using the farmhouse for recreation, they did not take a stand to make things right or make equality among the animals. Instead they stood back and let the pigs get what they wanted, they did this not because the pigs were smarter, but they knew chaos would be among them if they did rebel and the pigs would win, they're trapped in an unfair dystopia. “Boxer passed it off as usual with "Napoleon is always right!", but Clover, who thought she remembered a definite ruling against beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven Commandments which were inscribed there. Finding herself unable to read more than individual letters, she fetched Muriel.” This quote comes from right after the animals find out the pigs are sleeping in beds and using the farmhouse, as you can see animals like Boxer (Horse) pass up on rebelling and say that Napoleon is right. It seems as though the other animals were going to rebel but what ended up happening was they noticed the commandment was changed and they went with it. They let the pigs have their way. Another example of when the animals didn’t rebel when they should have was when Napoleon outlawed their favored rebellion song, Beasts …show more content…
On example is, when they animals first take over the farm and collect their first couple buckets of milk, they animals decide to split it up and share it that night. When they went off to work in the fields that day, the pigs, Napoleon and Snowball took the milk and split it up with the pigs. When the other animals noticed the milk was missing they asked what happened. The pigs explained to them that the milk was brain food for them and they needed it to stay smart and keep the Animal Farm in order. Yet again, the animals did not rebel. “Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us.” This quote is on the pigs (Squealer) explaining why they need the milk to themselves. He lies about disliking the milk and he took it from them and did not share it . He used resources . Another example of using resources is when Napoleon kept some puppies he took from a litter in the attic of the farm. Nobody was allowed in the attic except him, this is because he was training the puppies to worship him and only him. He did not use the dogs to protect the farm, he used the dogs to protect him. Also one of the commandments was, no animal shall kill any other animal, well on

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