Written in 1945 by George Orwell, Animal Farm is an allegorical novella about a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer in the hopes to create a society where animals can be free but, it’s definitely not as easy as they were thinking it would be. The novella is set in Manor Farm, located in Willingdon, England at an undisclosed time, this is so the book is timeless and shows how these events can and will likely happen again and how history repeats itself. The events of Animal Farm symbolise the Russian Revolution. Animal farm although, a simple narrative has many big ideas. Ultimately through Orwells characters, plot and setting, Orwell reveals the importance of critical thinking. Orwell highlights how having control and …show more content…
He shows this through the characters of Squealer and Boxer. Squealer symbolises all of the propaganda going on during the Russian revolution. Squealer often uses rhetorical questions like “You don’t imagine…We are doing this in spirit of selfishness and privilege?” Making the animals feel as if these changes and sacrifices are beneficial to them and that they are doing the correct thing. It also “became usual to blame everything on Snowball” even though he hadn’t done half the things he’d been blamed for. They did this to unite all the comrades against the enemy and make then stop thinking about them selves, Squealer and Napoleon used this almost as a distraction. Propaganda was also used with the changes to the constitution as all the animals “remembered or thought they remembered” the constitution being things that Napoleon has done an example oft this is how the comrades thought the Sixth Commandment read “No animal shall kill any other animal” but when they looked after Napoleon had killed some of his comrades is somehow red “No animal shall kill any other animal without cause? Although, many of the animals doubted that Napoleon hadn’t broken the constitution but“Squealer was soon able to convince then that their memories had been at fault”. Squealer would convince them until they were all in accord. Boxer, who represents the peasant workers repetitively says “Napoleon is always right!”, a type of propaganda which is often used is repetition, where you say a statement over and over which is certainly what happened in Boxers situation. He said this slogan over and over and with the combination of other manipulations going in eventually made all the animals believe that “Napoleon is always