Animal Farm 400 words

Animal Farm by George Orwell is novel that is written like a fable. The story is full of animals that represent certain kinds of people and has a moral in the end. This novel uses examples of dictatorship and communism as themes for the farm. Each character represents a certain kind of person. The whole story revolves around farm animals wanting equality amongst each other and humans. Old major, who was an old boar, was someone all the animals looked up to. On his deathbed he spoke of an upcoming rebellion and teaches them the song Beasts of England. The song is like an anthem to them. His final speech and death sparked the rebellion amongst the animals. Two other pigs decide that it is up to them to start the rebellion. Napoleon is a big pig that gets his way with intimidation and force. Snowball wins others with great speeches. They use the term “Comrade” which gives them the characteristics of famous dictators such as Stalin. These two use their charm and leadership to convince the animals to kick Jones out. Jones is the farmer who is seen as the current dictator. The pigs describe him as an evil drunk tyrant. There are other important animal figures that represent the people who follow the pigs. Boxer the horse is a loyal hardworking follower that everyone looks up to. He will do anything the pigs tell him. However he is also gullible and dumb. He sometimes questions his orders, but only briefly and then dismissing them. He represents those who blindly follow dictators and do what they say without thinking. There are many other animals, but the pigs are the main characters. As they slowly start deceiving the other farm animals more and more, the pigs have a struggle for leadership. Napoleon refuses to share leadership with Snowball and runs him out the farm. Since then Napoleon has said that Snowball was a traitor the whole time, and becomes a scapegoat. Anytime something goes wrong Snowball was the culprit. As things get worse the pigs start doing things that are now obviously wrong to every animal. They move into Jones house start wearing clothes. The animals are stunned as to why. The pigs start getting more violent and executing animals. The animals are wondering if it was better with Jones around. With most of the animals gone or dead there is no changing the way things are. The way the farm is now described like a labor camp. The pigs are now associating with other humans and walking on two legs. The farm animals peek in on them one night having a night with business men. To their terror they could barely tell the difference between the humans and pigs. The ending has them turning into men while they were already representing humans. This is an analogy on how humans have acted just like the pigs in this story.