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Examples Of Greed In Animal Farm By George Orwell

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Although the novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, possesses numerous themes, the most crucial theme is how greed can influence an individual’s decisions so greatly that deception of others is common practice. For instance, the readers get an insight of Squealer’s decisions and thoughts throughout the book, “‘It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back’… the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone” (Orwell 36). Essentially, the pigs had deceived the other animals because they had wanted the apples and milk all to themselves, even though the other animals worked harder than the pigs did. …show more content…

Another example includes, “Nevertheless, some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs… also slept in the beds…” “‘But not more comfortable than [the pigs] need, [Squealer] can tell you, comrades, with all the brainwork [the pigs] have to do nowadays. You would not rob [the pigs] of our repose, would you, comrades?’” (Orwell 66, 67). Ultimately, the pigs’ greed influenced their decisions once again to fit their wants and needs.The pigs had deceived them by making them believe that the newly added endings to some of the rules had not been touched and that the other animals’ memories were unclear. Finally, “But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was ‘No animal shall drink alcohol,’ but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: ‘No animal shall drink alcohol to excess’” (Orwell

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