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Conformity Vs. Conformity In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Non-Conformity vs. Conformity in Animal Farm
Is your voice important, beneficial, celebrated or is it just hated, feared, and simply unwanted? Whether it is one or the other lives can be impacted. George Orwell, Author of Animal Farms, created a satire that imposes the Russian totalitarianism government using animals on a farm as symbols to portray a gruesome side to Russian Communism . In Animal Farm the animals are faced with choices that lead them to conform or not conform to rules imposed by an unjust dictator. One character that was led to conform to a standard already set in place was the dictator of Animal Farm himself Napoleon, in his pursuit to have complete power he lives up to an authority created before his rule. In contrast to …show more content…

In the beginning equality and the opinions of others were heavily emphasised but slowly those basic fundamental ideas originally put in place to prevent another corrupt owner were dismissed by Napoleon and his gang of pigs. He strategically took away the rights of others and in place of those rights he put in place fear and blind obedience all in a scheme to rule Animal Farm by himself. His conformity can not be seen at face value but when you analyze his behavior you start to notice and understand he in fact mimics the exact behavior of the owner prior to his rule. He takes over the farm using violence and manipulation and contributes nothing to the …show more content…

Napoleon wanted total power and to reach that power he repeated the actions of the cruel owner previous to him while His sought reform in an unorthodox manner where he went against the only right of the time to preach a new truth. He changed the way millions of people thought and worshipped and in death sparked an entire revolution and branch or religion known as protestantism. Napoleon lived as another did continuing a cycle of viciousness while Huss created a new way of life proving that when people conform the past repeats itself and when you do not conform you create a new way of life and a change of

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