Topic > Animal Farm by George Orwell - 723

Animal Farm is a book about the struggle to be an animal. It shows how animals don't like the way they are treated and are used to make humans work for them. The animals are inspired by Old Major who always wanted to overthrow the humans but never succeeded. Animal Farm descends into government-like totalitarianism due to greed, power-hungry animals, and people not averse to talking about Napoleon. The pigs in the animal farm were very greedy. Whenever pigs can get extra food, they take it and do not share the food with other animals. When the animals find out, the pigs say they need the milk/food because they are the smartest and do all the work. Pigs are the leaders of the farm, which means they can take things they don't normally have. Pigs are also very intelligent, Napoleon was the smartest pig and knew how to outsmart all the other animals. He slimily attacked the snowball and chased it off the farm. Napoleon began to transform the minds of the other animals into believing that the real villain was Snowball and that he was the one who broke the windmill. Napoleon essentially rewrites history as the leader of Animal Farm, becoming the hero and turning the villain into a snowball, while the pigs act more and more like humans as the story progresses. They start acting like humans and even start acting like them. Pigs no longer even look at the rules of animalism and are fundamentally human. This was why they rebelled and in the end you can't even distinguish between the rule of animals and that of humans. Totalitarianism is shown because the animals' food is taken, their thoughts are controlled, and they are treated cruelly by the pigs. The occasion when the pigs... in the center of the card... have a name and it was always thought that was it. This should have been the last straw for the animals because seeing your leader change the name of your farm because he wants to act like a human should have been when they rebelled. At the end we see a pig and a human playing cards and talking and the other animals cannot distinguish between the two. This just goes to show that if you put all your trust in one person, they will never always do the right thing. This shows how animal farm slowly dissolved into the original form but also into a totalitarian state. Overall animal farm turned out to be a fraud because they were left alone for years but they went back to the same thing as when they started. The manor farm, which demonstrated how much power Napoleon had come to possess and how he had slowly transformed the animals and the farm into a totalitarian state.