Zamar Robinson

Animal Farm
July 18, 2016

The dystopia/satire Animal Farm wirtten by George Orwell is about

animals on a farm who dream and persue their main goal of becoming
independent and non-reliant upon humans, preferably Mr. Jones the farmer.
Old Major, the eldest animal on the farm called a meeting one night talking
about revolution, where the animals are independent and and slaved away to do
work that the old man could do himself. Major goes on to say of the horrors
humans produced to animals, as soon as animals can walk they are worked to
death, fed only enough only to be kept alive, and while humans sit in luxury
animals sit in misery, horrid treatment, and povert. Old Major talksabout a dream
that he had the previous night, of a world where animals live without the tyranny
of men. They are free, happy, well fed, and treated with respect. He urges the
animals to do everything they can to make this dream a reality and engages them
to overthrow the humans and end their reign. The animals eventually win over the
farm by chasing Mr. Jones and his crew off the farm and away for good.

At first, Animal Farm excells. Snowball the pig works at teaching the
animals to read, and Napoleon the pig takes a group of young puppies to
educate them in the principles of Animalism. As time passes, Napoleon
and Snowball worried over the future of the farm, begin to struggle with

each other for power and influence the other animals. Snowball plots a
scheme to build an electricity generating windmill, but Napoleon solidly
disagrees with the plan. At the meeting to vote on whether to take the
project, Snowball gives an astounding speech. Although Napoleon gives
only a brief one, he then makes a strange noise, and nine attack dogs,
the puppies that Napoleon had brought up in order to educate burst
into the barn and chase Snowball from the farm. Napoleon assumes
leadership of Animal Farm and declares that there will be no more
meetings. Years pass on Animal Farm, and the pigs become more and
more like human beings, walking upright, carrying whips, and wearing
clothes. Eventually, the seven principles of Animalism, known as the
Seven Commandments and engraved on the side of the barn, become
reduced to a single purpose saying, all animals are equal, but some
animals are more equal than others. Napoleon talks to a human farmer
named Mr. Pilkington at a dinner and declares his plan to ally himself with
the human farmers against the minor classes of both the humans and
animals. He also changes the name of Animal Farm back to the Manor
Farm, claiming that this title is the correct one. Looking in at the party
of upper class through the farmhouse window, the common animals can
no longer tell which are the pigs and which are the human beings.

Animalism, no longer the true identity of the animals, Napoleon

contradicting what he said in the beginning didnt want to stay away from
the human culture, instead he wanted to embrace it.