Examples Of Allegory In Animal Farm By George Orwell

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Animal Farm by George Orwell was written to be a satire to reality. Animal Farm is also an allegory of the Russian Revolution which occurred in the early nineteen hundreds. George Orwell portrays the readers with this allegory because he wants the readers to understand that if you are a man or animal, you have the same evil intent within you. Orwell published this novel thinking about the evil nature in the human society. In the novel, the animals followed a political system called Animalism while in reality it is called Communism. Animalism is any human society is seen as Capitalist or Communist government. Each character and event represents a person in reality or event which had happened causing Animal Farm to be an allegory. The characters…show more content…
The island which the boys are stranded at is an allegory of the evil nature human society. The lack of leadership, savagery, and bad mentalities shows humans have an evil nature just waiting to be revealed. Since there isn’t true civilization on the island, the boys create their own political system. On the island good leadership is represented by Ralph and bad leadership is represented by Jack. This can be the lack of leadership as two opposing group,Ralph's and Jack's have major conflicts towards each other. Since there are two types of leadership on the island, the evil side would become savage. In reality this can represent a government which would kill innocent civilization to show they have power. Without civilization, savagery would take over the human mind as seen at Jack's camp, when they consider killing members of Ralph's camp. This would be seen as the main allegory of the novel, without civilization savagery will be revealed. For instance, The Beast is told to be in every human's mind and to be the evil nature of the human as we see in the novel just waiting to be unleashed. As seen when the savages from Jack's camp invades Ralph's camp to take Piggy's glasses. The act of savagery leads to Piggy's death which in his mind, he thinks savagery has taken over the island. Since the island is an allegory of society, each human has The Beast within their minds but just waiting to…show more content…
The novel “Animal Farm” was written during an important time period, in the midst of World War II and was published near the end of the war. The symbols used in Animal Farm portray the corruption of power occurring in the novel and in reality and the evil nature of human society, symbols such as The Windmill, which is portrayed as an allusion in reality. The Windmill represents the pig’s control of other animals to gain power for themselves. The pigs had the animals such as Boxer participates in hard labor to build The Windmill, just for the pigs to gain more power and increase their wealth. Napoleon first thought it would be a bad idea for a windmill to be built but later changed his mind and tells the animals to construct it. Dramatic irony is used when the animal thought there is a positive motive behind the windmill but in reality the audience knows Napoleon wanted it to be built because to increase his power. Multiply times throughout the story Boxer states, “I will work harder!”(Orwell, 25). The first time he spoke it was when the animals had just begun working on the farm and he was looking to help out as much as possible. As the story continues he uses the saying as a motivator to push himself, he constantly needs the reassurance that what he is partaking in is good. Boxer blindly placed his trust in the pigs and does not have the power to define
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