animal farm

tyranny that gives 'freedom'

[itsapigthing]

Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. 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.

The animals had suspected the pigs from the start when they took in the milk and the apples. However the pigs’ abuse of power through words convinced the animals that they needed those luxurious snacks for themselves. This is turning point of the novel because if the animals would have taken a stand from the start of the problem, then their bureaucracy would not have reverted back to a corrupted one like it was under the humans. The animals were undertaken by their credulous minds, a weak point that help the pigs rise to power.

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One Sunday morning, when the animals assembled to receive their orders, Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy. From now on- wards Animal Farm would engage in trade with the neighboring farms: not, of course, for any commercial purpose, but simply in order to obtain certain materials which were urgently necessary. The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.

The pigs had betrayed the rest of the animals by using their supplies for commercial use since the earliest resolutions stated to not commit human activities like trading. The windmill symbolizes the pigs’ manipulation of the other animals for their own benefit. The pigs cared more for the construction of the windmill than the animals’ needs because the windmill aided them with more money that lead to an increase of power. The windmill represents the modernization projects in Russia after the revolution.

[itsapigthing]

Life’s a gung ho rebel, And the soul a naïve slave, It’s hard to differentiate where truth and lie dwell, And the world, is partially devoid of sentiments, and the other half over with responses one may not afford in to behave, It all comes back to the hardship cycle, where God owes everyone, A deception point, In what some fall short, and some end up fully done, One may call it the life’s joint.

This poem reflects the susceptible responses to deceit that lead to suppression. The rest of the animals did not know how to read or how to even govern themselves due to their inexperience. Therefore they relied on the pigs’ tactics and trusted their demands. the animals could not depict “where [the] truth and lie dwell” because of the pigs’ abusive power of words .The rest of the animals were credulous, hardworking, and loyal and such qualities allow the pigs to rise in power at ease. The naïveté of the oppressed animals endorsed their outcome.

Haroon, Rukhshan. "Life and Society; A Portray by Rukhshan Haroon." Life and Society; A Portray, a Poem by Rukhshan Haroon. All Poetry Poets. All Poetry, N/a Aug. 2013. Web. 27 May 2014. <http://allpoetry.com/poem/10859603-Life-and-Society--A-Portray-by-Rukhshan-Haroon>.

[itsapigthing]

Ragged with no hope I hold on to a loose rope They said to believe, to trust To work hard for the just. And I believed…

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"Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,

Beasts of every land and clime"

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"Do You Hear The People Sing?" by Les Miserables

   Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see?

Then join in the fight That will give you the right to be free!

[All:] Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes!

Will you give all you can give So that our banner may advance Some will fall and some will live Will you stand up and take your chance? The blood of the martyrs Will water the meadows of France!

[All:] Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes

    This song is a socialist anthem that does not appear on an album.

    The socialist anthem is almost identical to the song Beast of England sang by Old Major in the novel Animal Farm. The “angry men” represent the “beast of England” which symbolize the working class. Bold individuals like the Communist party and the pigs stand to start a revolution against their sole rulers and ask for the rest, “Beast of every land and clime”, to join their “crusade”. Both the animals and the Russians hope to “one day be free” and no longer “be slaves”. They both see a bright future ahead of themselves once they overthrow their tyrant rule.

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Manvel's Farm which Represents Manor Farm that symbolizes society... you know what I mean

The Manvel farm symbolizes a nation. Every nation has a government, a military of defense, and a working class. Orwell satirizes the socialist rule under Stalin with the Manor farm. The pigs who ruled were the dictators, the dogs were the defense, and the rest of the animals were the naïve working class. The animals aid to overthrow the human rule expecting to in a way obtain freedom. They work hard after they are liberated from human rule thinking they will one day obtain the sweet liberty that they always hope for. The socialist government denigrates the American Dream because it is difficult for the lower class to rise up to the upper class. The dictators use the power of words to convince the naïve working class that they live in a classless society where everyone is equal.

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Let us rise from ashes

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The Great Gatsby

In both the novel Animal Farm and The Great Gatsby depict the social ladder in a society. Both novels convey social stratification: the upper, middle and lower class. Both disintegrate the American Dream for the characters in the lower, or working, class which is impotent to grow and prosper. In The Great Gatsby, Myrtle was desperate to improve her status. She was stuck in a loveless marriage with George Wilson living in the Valley of Ashes. Myrtle hoped for her life to someday turn around with the affair she had with Tom. Just like Myrtle from The Great Gatsby, the rest of the animals in Animal Farm hoped that someday they would be available to gain their freedom and would no longer be ‘mistreated’ if they relied on the new form of rule under the pigs. The characters from both novels had the naïve optimism of rising from their rags into achieving their long hoped dreams.

  "I told that boy about the ice." Myrtle raised her ... eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. "These people! You have to keep after them all the time." 

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Matthew J. Bruccoli. "Ch.2." The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. 69-70. Print.

[itsapigthing]

Of course I intended it primarily as a satire on the Russian revolution. But I did mean it to have a wider application in so much that I meant that that kind of revolution (violent conspiratorial revolution, led by unconsciously power-hungry people) can only lead to a change of masters. I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job. The turning-point of the story was supposed to be when the pigs kept the milk and apples for themselves (Kronstadt). If the other animals had had the sense to put their foot down then, it would have been all right. If people think I am defending the status quo, that is, I think, because they have grown pessimistic and assume that there is no alternative except dictatorship or laissez-faire capitalism. -Orwell

Orwell states that the purpose of writing the novel Animal Farm was to show how changing the established corrupted government does not help change the circumstances unless the people prevent “power hungry individuals” from assuming control that possibly bring back the corrupted rule. Orwell also warns that once the power-hungry individuals take control and gain power it is difficult to remove them or stop their influence. Furthermore, Orwell states that many critics are assuming that he is conveying to the public that there is only two forms of government, that being capitalism or dictatorship. However, Orwell disproves this belief by saying that there are plenty options than just the to mention bureaucracies.

Orwell, George. "'Animal Farm': What Orwell Really Meant by George Orwell." ‘Animal Farm’: What Orwell Really Meant by George Orwell. New York Review of Books, 13 July 2013. Web. 27 May 2014. <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jul/11/animal-farm-what-orwell-really-meant/>.

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September 2, 1946

            Soule, George. "In 1946, The New Republic Panned George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'" Web log post. New Republic. George Soule, 23 Sept. 2013. Web. 27 May 2014.