James Williams
Mrs. Henslee
Period: 2
11-28-2014
Sparknotes Report: Animal Farm Animal Farm by George Orwell is about the oppression and disgruntled feelings of the animals on a farm. Old Major, a boar, gathers the animals in the barn for a meeting. He tells them of a dream he had where all animals lived together with no humans to oppress them. He tells the animals they must work together for his dream to be fulfilled. Unfortunately, three nights later he dies. Three pigs, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer, take over for him and formulate Old Majors principles into Animalism. Late one night, the animals defeat the farmer, Mr. Jones, in a battle, running him off the farm. They then rename the property Animal Farm and work to achieve Old Major’s dream. In the beginning, Animal Farm is prosperous. Snowball begins teaching the animals how to read and Napoleon teaches a group of young puppies about Animalism. Mr. Jones returns to take back the farm but the animals are able to defeat him once again. However, as time goes on, Snowball and Napoleon quarrel over how the farm will be run in the future and struggle for power over the other animals. Snowball concocts a plan to build an electric-generated windmill but Napoleon opposes the plan. During a speech, the puppies Napoleon took to “educate” burst into the barn and chase Snowball from the farm. Napoleon then takes complete control of the farm and tells the animals he is in control. Napoleon then decides it is a good idea to build a windmill and the animals devote their time to completing the windmill. However, after a storm the windmill is destroyed. Napoleon blames Snowball and says he sabotaged the windmill. Napoleon then rounds up all the animals that supposedly participated in Snowball’s conspiracy and sentence them to death at the teeth of the attack dogs. Mr. Frederick, a neighboring farmer, cheats Napoleon in the purchase of timber and destroys the windmill with dynamite. A battle then ensues and the animals rout the farmers. However, Boxer, a hardworking carthorse, is gravely injured and Napoleon sells him to a glue maker in order to get more money for whisky. As the years go by, the pigs start acting more and more like humans. Animalism rules and “commandments” are thrown away and one rule remains which reads, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Napoleon changes the farm name back to Manor Farm claiming this name is the “correct” name. Looking through the farmhouse window, the common animals can’t tell which ones are pigs and which ones are the humans. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair, a novelist whose criticisms of political oppression brought him fame toward the middle of the twentieth century. He was born in 1903 in India to a British colonist. Orwell received an education at different private schools but his experiences with snobbishness at these schools made him suspicious of the class system in English society. He spoke openly against the excess of governments in both the east and west and began fighting for the socialist cause. His main novel, Animal Farm, was written to show people the oppression that dictators bring into a country. Orwell died on January 21, 1950 in a London hospital. The time of Animal Farm is largely unidentified throughout the novel. However, it is assumed that Orwell meant the story to be based on the satire of the Russian Revolution.
Animal Farm Animal Farm by George Orwell shows how taking responsibility for one’s education helps to maintain freedom throughout the society. Animal Farm was written during the greatest rivalries the world has ever known. The book shows how abuse of power leads to inequality within the citizens. In the novel there is lots of tyranny, because of the failure to actually get education. Some of the animals feel that taking responsibility for one’s education helps maintain freedom. I…
Explained in Animal Farm George Martin once said “Power resides only where men believe it resides. A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow” (Goodreads, George R.R. Martin). This quote is an example of how power can corrupt a whole system even if only one man or animal does some action to change it. This concept is the same for the book Animal Farm because power in the story is used by the pigs to control the whole farm. Power can be…
Animal Farm By Rachel Sanders “Everyone is equal, but some are more equal.” This statement is very well demonstrated through the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. We will see the great lesson Orwell was trying to convey to us through three main points. First, what makes a fairytale and how Animal Farm is considered one of them, second we will see the strand of communism and totalitarianism that arise, and last who and what the characters are represented and their respected themes they play in…
ANIMAL FARM BY GEORGE ORWELL Jasmine Qian About Author Eric Arthur Blair, known b y his pen name George O rwell, was an English nov elist and journalist. His w ork is marked by clarity, i ntelligence and wit, awar eness of social injustice, opposition to totalitariani sm, and commitment to democratic socialism. World War II and Animal Farm Animal Farm was published on the heels of World War II, in England in 1945 and in the United States in 1946. George Orwell wrote the book during the war…
Front Page Cover: The animals take the rein in an animal farm. The world was shocked when the story of the astonishing events that occurred in an animal farm in England were brought to light. Apparently, after much neglect and abuse, the animals had had enough and decided to overthrow its abusing owners. Last week, a group of pigs, horses, cows, chickens, dogs, and other farm animals reached their limit and while the farmers were whipping them they started fighting back until the farmers were ran…
Animal Farm and The Russian Revolution: A Comparison and Discussion Animal farm was first published on 17 August 1945, despite the book being finished nearly two years before. The book was originally published with the title Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. However A Fairy Story was removed when the book was published in the US. Later variations of the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire. This is due to the obvious satirical nature of the book and the direct comparison made between it and…
Animal Farm Essay The allegory that the story contains allows for interpretation on a number of levels. I think one of the most important interpretations and messages of the book concerns the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm is a sort of representation of the events in Russia beginning with the fall of the Tsar in 1917. It is mainly about Stalin’s government of the country from the 1920s to the end of the Second World War. Orwell criticizes Stalin for his barbaric and undemocratic methods in…
I am reading George Orwell's Animal farm. The entire book stands for and represents the russian revolution. During the russian revolution the last emperor Tsar Nicholas the second was overthrown and Joseph Stalin rose to power. The book is a perfect portrayal of the revolution at which these events took place. I believe that his purpose for writing this book was to give people a different perspective on the Russian revolution and what happened. Giving the animals qualities and characteristics that matched up with important people during…
Orwell’s goals in writing Animal Farm was to portray the Russian Revolution of 1917 as one that resulted in a government more oppressive, totalitarian, and unequal than the one it overthrew. Mr. Jones is based on Tsar Nicholas II, who was the last Russian emperor. During his rule, the Russian people experienced terrible poverty and uproar, marked by the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1905 when unarmed protesters demanding social reforms were shot down by Nicholas' army. As the animals under Mr. Jones lead…
English Essay Question-How important is knowledge of the Russian Revolution have a solid understanding of Animal Farm? The whole point of Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is to portray by means of a fable-allegory the events leading up to and following the Russian Revolution. The story may indeed be read and understood as a simple tale, but it is meant to convey much more than that. For a young child it is not important to understand the political significance of the story. However, for an adolescent…