Animal Farm Manipulation Essay

The Russian Revolution is the inspiration for ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell, It shows the ways that the people who were controlled by Vladimir Lenin in a form of storytelling. In Animal Farm, author George Orwell develops the idea of manipulation throughout the book in many forms. To go in the specifics of ways the author portrays manipulation, one way he shows it throughout the book is by having the main antagonist; Napoleon and Squealer, his speaker tricking the rest of the animals on the farm to feel wrong about what they think, despite the fact that they are right, and the pigs are manipulating and tricking with their thoughts. For instance, mostly Napoleon but as well as the other pigs changed the original seven commandments, as the

Squealer convinces all the animals that it was their ‘faulty memories’ and after that, they did end up blaming themselves instead of in fact they were just getting manipulated. It also shows in the last chapter when Napoleon is walking upright while the sheep chant ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ and then a little later the pigs invite the farmers and say that humans aren’t bad, and it was all a misunderstanding, but it is distinguished in the early chapters that the whole farm agreed with the dislike towards the humans, and also the first original commandant was

To start off into, the most obviously shown way they used the animals is for the building of the windmill. Squealer and Napoleon convinced and manipulated the animals to make the windmill. He made sure that they did their work for it for the year it took, before destroying to make the animals hate Snowball to have them make another one. The animals didn’t have much of a choice, they could obey and do the work, and or disobey and be killed by the dogs. Like mentioned previously, Napoleon used the animals to do the hard work of building the windmill, when he was sitting back and watching, but also because the windmill brought money to him instead for his original purpose to create energy upon the farm. A quote that shows the previous points mentioned says quote, “The windmill, however, had not after all been used for generating electrical power. It was used for milling corn, and brought in a handsome money profit. The animals were hard at work building yet another windmill; when that one was finished, so it was said, the dynamos would be installed.” Another way he uses the animals to tasks or used them to his own needs was when he took the hens eggs to provide money for the animals , which is less of profit versus him receiving money for the windmill. To sum