The novel Animal Farm written by George Orwell is uses subtle, creative and humorous ways to represent a real life event, the Russian Revolution. The genre of this book is fiction, politics and satire. Animal Farm starts off with the story of an old pig's dream about a non-existent utopia where all the animals on Manor Farm are free. After the old pig dies he still has his two disciple pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, to carry out the tasks in order for his dream to become a reality. Napoleon and Snowball decide to have a rebellion to overthrow the farmer Mr. Jones, because they do not like how he is currently treating the animals. That was the beginning of a change no human or animal could foresee. The novel continues with how the animals try to run
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In the end they themselves are the ones who become the most deceitful beings on the farm. They are willing to deceive their fellow comrades to obtain the power and control that they desire. The animals using deception and the overall deception throughout the book is shown in the seven commandments, humans, and in using Snowball’s name. The seven commandments are the laws of the animals on Animal Farm that no animal can disobey but, the pigs use deception as their loophole. Most of the animals on the farm other than the pigs are not smart, and have they have a terrible memory because they do not understand the words. The pigs use this against those animals by changing the commandments to what suits their needs since the other animals cannot remember if something was different; it takes places in the middle of the book. The animals remember very little concerning words, "It says, ‘No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets'...Curiously enough, Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheets; but as it was there on the wall, it must have done so."(Orwell 45). Clover is one of the animals that has a decent memory but, believes in the lie of the commandment because it is written
In the end they themselves are the ones who become the most deceitful beings on the farm. They are willing to deceive their fellow comrades to obtain the power and control that they desire. The animals using deception and the overall deception throughout the book is shown in the seven commandments, humans, and in using Snowball’s name. The seven commandments are the laws of the animals on Animal Farm that no animal can disobey but, the pigs use deception as their loophole. Most of the animals on the farm other than the pigs are not smart, and have they have a terrible memory because they do not understand the words. The pigs use this against those animals by changing the commandments to what suits their needs since the other animals cannot remember if something was different; it takes places in the middle of the book. The animals remember very little concerning words, "It says, ‘No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets'...Curiously enough, Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheets; but as it was there on the wall, it must have done so."(Orwell 45). Clover is one of the animals that has a decent memory but, believes in the lie of the commandment because it is written