Equality In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Freedom and equality are two essential parts of everyday society and majorly affect the general happiness of the people. There is often a problem when somebody in this society tries to mess with this. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, though, almost everybody on the farm contributes to their own oppression instead of just one. Napoleon and Boxer are both main contributors to the oppression in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, but Napoleon contributes the most. Napoleon, the leader of the farm, is a very controlling individual. Whatever he says must go, no matter how much it affects the other animals. He is backed up by the other pigs on the farm who all benefit from his rule. He is also manipulative, changing his opinions and denying he did such a thing. He had more of a direct influence to the loss of freedom and equality on the farm as he made all of the rules and trained the vicious

Deceitful is another good word to describe Napoleon, as he has lied to the animals multiple times. The pigs, with Napoleon’s help, were given many unfair privileges, even breaking the original rules written in the wall in the barn. One instance that describes him well in the story was when “Napoleon stood up and, casting a peculiar sidelong look at Snowball, uttered a high-pitched whimper of a kind no one had ever heard him utter before. At this there was a terrible baying outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws” (Orwell 52-53). Snowball had done nothing to provoke him, much less had done nothing wrong beforehand, other than simply opposing him on an issue. A