Animal Farm Research Paper

The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell centers around a group of animals on a farm that come to believe that humans are what's in between the animals and their freedom. This was due to a meeting set by Old Major who was a wise and persuasive pig that inspired a rebellion against the humans for their own and future children’s freedom. The principles of animalism were also supported by Old Major’s speech that soon after his death get modified by Napoleon and the other pigs that take the opportunity to become the new leader figures. Animalism was set to start as a communist philosophy of all of the animals being treated equally while also sharing both the responsibilities and rewards of the farm, at least that was the beginning way to view animalism

Napoleon reason that because he is a pig, he would be the best leader for the animals after Old Major himself as a pig died. The words that Old Major shared with the animals inspired Napoleon to take the opportunity to set himself as the leader for the want of the luxuries that come with power. This is shown when Napoleon stayed behind in the barn with the buckets of milk alone, they were soon found empty when the animals came back for their own share of the milk. When the animals questioned what happened to the milk, the pigs and Napoleon made it seem like he drank the milk for the animals gain, but it was truly because he just wanted the milk(8,9). Later on when the commandments were set down in writing on the tarred wall(8), the animals started to leave their doubts behind on starting animalism because the seven commandments were set as a gain for the animals. With most of the animals not being able to read had not noticed the changes that started to occur to the commandments. For example, the seventh commandment started as ‘All animals are equal’ and later changed to ‘All animals are equal but some are more equal then other’. The changes in the commandments only benefited Napoleon and his wanting of more power. This made what started as an image of hope to become a reality of being trapped and manipulated to all the animals that were not