Animal Farm Quotes

“Don't judge a book by its cover.” A quote written by George Eliot in 1860. This famous quote is known by millions around the world. The quote says that you should not judge someone based on how they look or sound. Hitler said that the Jews were bad for the country, and they would mess everything up, so they needed to go, and everyone followed and believed him. A similar thing happened on Animal Farm, the humans were thought of as bad people doing terrible things and everyone believed it. Based on Hitler's rise to power and the horrible things he did to his people and the Jews while he had power, Hitler and Nazism magnificently correspond to the events of Animal Farm.

Who was Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler was a dictator; a dictator is a person

There was a dictatorship in both Nazi Germany and Animal Farm. In Animal Farm, the dictator is Napoleon. The first time we see Napoleon become a dictator in Animal Farm is when he makes himself the only person who has power Animal Farm, “Nine enormous dogs came bounding out into the barn. They darted straight for Snowball” (Orwell 53). From then on Napoleon became even more of a dictator killing the animals that did not agree with him, “The dogs promptly tore their throats out,” this was Napoleons way of showing his power even more than he already had. He continues, “and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess” (84). Hitler did the same thing in Nazi Germany. Hitler took away the Jews' freedom, “A constant flood of new ordinances increasingly restricted their already severely constricted lives” (Ullrich 179).

This was used a lot in Nazi Germany and Animal Farm through convincing speeches said by leaders. In Animal Farm lots of propaganda is spread to the animals. That propaganda that was spread near the end of the book was to benefit Napoleon and the other pigs. It gave pigs better food and more luxurious living, “Milk and apples (this has been proven by science comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig” (Orwell 35-36). Squealer is trying to convince the other animals that the pigs need better food to live and since the pigs are leaders and are the only ones that understand English well, they must have decent food. Another reason the animals listened and believed Squealer is because, “He was a brilliant talker,” Meaning people listened to what he said. And the most recognized thing he did to convince them was “he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive” (16) Squealer was the only reason that people listened to Napoleon and followed him. One of the biggest lies spread in Animal Farm was the only thing left on the commandment board at the end of the book. They had changed the commandment board so many times in the book to benefit the pigs and this one was the biggest. The commandment on the board read, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” (134). This lie that was spread gave napoleon and