Totalitarianism Animal Farm

The novella, Animal Farm, satirizes the totalitarian rule of Stalinist Russia. The author, Eric Blair, known by the pseudonym George Orwell, uses a farm in which every animal and conflict is allegorical to the Soviet Union after the 1917 Revolution. Orwell portrays the working class animals as unaware of their significance, similar to the working class of the Soviet Union. After the rebellion, which represents the Russian Revolution, the animals anticipate an exponentially better life consisting of bigger rations, proper care, and a society with no social classes and equality among all animals, similar to communism. The pigs, who naturally become the leaders, create a list of commandments that sum up the ideals of Animalism, which represents …show more content…
Boxer, an uneducated hardworking horse who is unaware of his value on the farm, works extra backbreaking hours for the welfare of the farm, but when he becomes weak, the pigs sell him to the knackers to buy whiskey. Not only does Squealer mistreat Boxer, a productive and essential member of the farm, but he also lies to the farm animals ensuring them that Boxer died peacefully in a hospital. Similarly, Clover, another uneducated horse, questions the changing of the commandments when she notices the pigs are living luxuriously by sleeping on a bed, wearing clothes, and drinking alcohol. After confronting Squealer, he responds by telling Clover that she misunderstood the commandments. Because Clover has low self-esteem, she complies without realizing that she allows the pigs to enjoy luxury while she works laboriously without complaining. By using the sheep's lack of intelligence, Squealer also brainwashes the sheep to learn different chants including "Four legs good, two legs better," which serves to distract the animals from thinking clearly and to support the ideals that minimize equality among the farm