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Animal Farm Quote Analysis

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As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” In a society, it is not only the citizen’s right, but it is their responsibility to stand up for what is right or to point out flaws in their society. In Animal Farm, when the animals were under the rule of the pigs, they underestimated themselves and ended up in a defenseless position very eerily similar to their position in Jones’s day because of their lack of faith in themselves. It was their responsibility as citizens to stand up to injustice, but because of their lack of faith in themselves, injustice overtook the farm. Expression is a powerful part of one’s responsibility to their society and can make great political impact. …show more content…

Orwell displays this theme in the last sentence of the novel, after the pigs have made an alliance with the humans and destroyed the morals of their farm. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” This happening was truly a travesty for the creatures of animals farm. However, it was themselves who failed to take responsibility when it was possible to correct their corrupt government. For example, Benjamin the donkey “-could read as well as any pig, but never exercised this faculty” (33). If Benjamin had helped Clover read the barn wall the many times that she asked him to, she could have realized and alerted the rest of the animals sooner. Even Benjaman himself could have at least attempted to save his friend Boxer from the slaughterer by noticing the changes made to the amendments and stood up to the pigs. It may have been lack of faith, lack of courage, or even carelessness that made Benjaman so brittle. For a society to function, all citizens must be taught to live with faith, courage, and

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This point is evident from the way the other animals comply with the alterations the pigs make according to their ever-changing values and beliefs. This compliance from the farm animals could be traced back to their lack of intelligence. The pigs have not only learned to read and write like Man, but to also control and manipulate the farm animals into doing as they please, just as Man did. Other animals on the farm were not capable of adapting to the human language as quickly as the pigs, which led them to become inferior and conforming individuals of the farmhouse. Their lack of intelligence, critical thinking and autonomy of all of the farm animals, excluding the pigs, led to the overexploitation and conformity they displayed and endured.

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This quote showcases the specific way Orwell places his words to change the tone of this story. For example, in the quote it says that pigs are “generally recognized” as being the cleverest of animals. Orwell could have said that the pigs are the cleverest of animals, but he did not. This causes the reader to think: what if the pigs are not the most intelligent? What if the pigs manipulate the animals into thinking they are the most intelligent?

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Rhetoric is central to the novel Animal Farm because the whole idea of the book was to illustrate how previous leaders in Russia used rhetoric themselves to persuade the people. Using animals, George Orwell wrote his novel trying to show the reader how powerful rulers in Russia misled the Russian people. Rulers like Stalin and Trotsky persuaded the people by enticing them, so it would only make sense that Orwell would portray much of that in the book. It was essential for the author to use rhetoric to allow the reader to fully understand the entirety of history and the story.

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A necessity to ensure an ideal and functional community, as demonstrated in George Orwell 's 1945 novel Animal Farm, is the ability to detect and prevent corrupt conduct, read, and the will to challenge authority, which the animals do not possess, therefore putting them at major fault. One of the main factors that leads to the downfall of the farm and Animalism itself is the blatant stupidity that the animals, excluding the pigs, possess. They are overly dense to the point where the concept of corruption is near unfathomable, and thus cannot detect it or act upon their suspicions. Their willingness to believe Squealer 's persuasive speeches whenever doubt arises indicate that the animals are unable to think for themselves. “The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own” (Orwell 19).

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In George Orwell’s allegorical novel Animal Farm, the sneaky and mischievous actions of the government leave the inhabitants of the farm helpless and completely controlled. This novel serves as a warning to people everywhere to challenge authority and never abandon independent thought. Benjamin hides his knowledge of the pigs schemes from the other animals to avoid conflict, proving that mature members of a society may deceive others to remain true to personal philosophy of uninvolvement, if only to solidify to everyone that they are invariably right. Benjamin retains the information he posses in order to prove a point that all systems of government come and go, and will never affect his life.

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Old major requests other animals in the farm to meet in the barn after Mr.Jones get drunk and falls asleep. Major gives a speech about how evil the humans are and how they need to rebel against Man. Major also gives some warning to the animals about how the men harm their farm and order them to do a lot of work. After Major gives his elaborates in his speech, he goes on talking about his dream in which he sees no humans on the earth. Major then teaches the animals a song called “Beasts of England”, the animals sang it again and again until they awaken Mr. Jones.

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At the very end of the book, one of the animals looks into a dinner where the ruling pigs are having a human as a guest. After some time, they notice that the pigs have become so greedy, self-serving, and corrupt that they can no longer be told apart from the human they so despised and revolted over. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Orwell pg 54 The evidence provided directly shows how far rulers will go from righteous rulers to corrupt and self-servicing leaders and how it shows the real world how people at the very top no longer care for the people they pretend to serve.

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