George Orwell's Animal Farm is based on a theme of power,propaganda, and a dictatorship similar to Joseph Stalin. Old Major a (prize winning pig) gathers all the animals on this farm and enlightens the animals about this vision he had about the farm being run by humans. Old major dies days later and three pigs take over. The three pigs take major's idea and puts it into action by running the humans off the farm leaving the animals in power. The Farm built on this plan of animalism and would rename Manor Farm into Animal Farm. One day an argument arose between napoleon and snowball two pigs that each led their own groups to help out around the farm. At an evening meeting Snowball purposed his idea of and electric windmill,but as soon as Napoleon had the opportunity to speak he whistled for his group of dogs that would chase snowball off the farm leaving him in power.As the weeks went on Napoleon's rules were getting more strict leaving the animals cold, hungry and uncomfortable. Napoleon decided to take up Snowball's idea of the windmill but was later destroyed. Squealer, Napoleon's propagandist lied and convinced the animals that it was Snowball who destroyed the windmill also how Napoleon was a great leader. Weeks later when the hard worked on second windmill gets broken boxer, a horse also the hardest working of the animals gets hurt in the demolition. Boxer gets traded by Napoleon for whisky then leaves squealer again to lie to the animals saying he died peacefully in a hospital.He also explains how if anyone questions Napoleons authority or steps out of line will be killed instantly. Years later the pigs start to act more and more like humans and one day at dinner Napoleon brings up this idea he has with a farmer about collaborating with one another to put the animals under labour. Some of the animals look through the window and they can no longer tell the pigs apart from the humans. All the commandments that were written at the beginning of animalism except one"all animals are equal,but some animals are more equal then others"
How believable the setting is
I do not believe the setting is believable but I do believe the concept could be very real and the fact that the book express's human dictatorship among animals is very clever. I find that book could be more realistic if the animals weren't able to talk and have the comprehension skills to build an electric windmill.If George Orwell were to change the animals to human slaves,and the dogs into desperate Skitsofranics and left everything else the same the book could have worked out to be closer to reality. I also like how they decide to rename the farm to call it Animal Farm,how they agree to put up commandments, and how they follow under what we call a dictatorship.
Three quotes that appeal to me
The reason this quote "sixth commandment states:No Animal shall kill any other animal" appeals to me is because a little past the middle of the book Napoleon gets into an argument with Snowball over a Electric Windmill concept and runs Snowball out of Animal farm with his pack of dogs and declares a new rule. His new rule is that any animal that apposes him will die instantly to the teeth of his killer dogs. This completely contradicts the sixth commandment and the start of Napoleon's dictatorship.My second quote that appealed to me was "All animals are equal,but some animals are more equal than others" I found this the most interesting out of the three because thats when the pigs erase all the previous commandments but add on to the one that read, "all animals are equal" they then added on "but some animals are more equal then others" which completely spins the idea of equality in Old Majors idea of Animal Farm.My third quote I found appealing is "all men are enemies. All animals are comrades" I liked this quote because it was stated that all humans are evil to animals at the beginning, but as the book progresses Napoleon starts trading and acting more human like along with the other pigs e.g drinking whiskey,sleeping in beds, and walking on his hind legs.At the very end the pigs decide to become friends with the humans and the end up eating dinner with them. This also completely contradicts what they said about being friends with humans.
