animal farm essay

December 2, 1996
Period 5Animal Farm Essay
The name of the book is Animal Farm, which is written by
GeorgeOrwell. This book is about a farm with animals who dislike the
treatment, andovertake the farm and overthrow the humans of the farm.
As the revolutiontook place, two leaders came about. Their names were
Snowball andNapoleon, whose main goal was to have nothing to do with
humans, and bringcommunism into their society. "Napoleon was a
large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the onlyone of those on the
farm. He was not much of a talker, but with a reputationfor getting his
own way" (Ch.2, P. 25). "Snowball was a more vivacious pig than
Napoleon, quicker in speechand more inventive but did not have the
character depth that Napoleon did"(Ch.2, Pgs. 24-25.) Snowball was the
one with the ideas like the committeesand the windmill. He was a better
thinker than Napoleon. When all the animals helped kick Mr. Jones off
the farm, Snowball ledthe animals to the store-shed and served out a
double ration of corn toeverybody with two biscuits going to each of the
dogs. Napoleon on the other hand was very selfish. He stole milk that
wasmeant for everybody and drank it all, and he stole apples. He doesn't
careabout the work the animals do, just what would benefit him. For
example, Napoleon comes up with the building of the windmill thatwould
supply electricity so they would not have to work as hard. Napoleonwas
against this because he didn't come up with the idea. When
Napoleonsees that Snowball is gaining more power with the speech of
the windmill,Napoleon sends his dogs to chase Snowball out of the farm.
After Snowballwas chased out of the farm, Napoleon gains more power
by saying Snowballwas a bad person. He told the animals that Snowball
was with Mr. Jonesfrom the starting. (Ch 6. P. 72) "We will teach this
miserable traitor that hecannot undo our work so easily." He is now
saying that Snowball was theone who ruined the windmill, even though it

was his idea. He called him atraitor. And when Napoleon couldn't do the
trash talking, he sent squealer. "For we know now, it is all written down
in the secret documents thatwe have found-that in reality he was trying to
lure us to our doom" (Ch. 7 P.80). He was telling all the animals that
Snowball was a traitor and was withMr. Jones, because of the Battle of
the Cowshed. He told them that it was allset up for them to be
slaughtered. One animal shouted that he was shot. Butsquealer was a
smart one. He told them that the shot only grazed him, andNapoleon was
the good guy. He was the one that sank his teeth into Jones'leg. To
me at least, it seemed that Snowball was always trying to do whatwas
best for the farm and all the other animals. Snowball came up with
theideas for the committees, the windmill, helped with the
commandments. Hewas the courageous leader because the fact is that
he was the one who led theanimals at the Battle of the Cowshed. he was
the one who was supplying theanimals with food during the rebellion.
Napoleon was stealing food. Napoleon, since, has been changing
the commandments that wouldbest suit him. He has basically changed
all the commandments with a fewwords. The seventh commandment has
been changed to (Ch.10 P. 123) "AllAnimals are Equal But Some Animals
Are More Equal Than Others," meaningof course, the pigs are more
equal. The commandments are being changed tobenefit them. The
alcohol commandment has changed with an addition oftwo words. "No
Animal Shall drink Alcohol To Excess). The bedcommandment has
changed to where they can now sleep in beds, but withoutsheets, but the
only animals that sleep in the beds are the pigs. Since the leader of
the farm is a pig, none of the pigs have to follow thecommandments
because when they break one, they just change it to what theydid. I think
that the animals are starting to act like humans more and more,which
they hated the most. The chant that was four legs good, two legs
bad,had been changed to four legs good, two legs better, just because

the pigswanted to walk like humans and have started walking like humans
(Ch. 10 P.122). From this book, we learned that communism is very
hard to bring to asociety where every person thinks that they are better
then another.