George Orwell's Animal Farm

Originally the Manor Farm, animal farm was generated because the animals overthrew the human farmer, Mr. & Mrs. Jones, who they believed was treating them poorly. Mr. Jones fed the animals small rations of food and made them work long hours for which he just benefited from. He lived in the farm house and slept in a bed while the animals slept on the dirty barn floor covered with hay. This sparked an idea of a rebellion to Old Major. Although Old Major pasted, the animals carried through with his idea because they wanted to move away from all of this. However, after Napoleon takes power and the pigs are given higher authority than the others, all of the previous conditions gradually return. The pigs begin to act like humans everyday. The first

“Out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs” (Orwell 117). All of the animals watched in awe as the pigs began to walk on two legs like the humans do and go against their first commandment “Four legs good, two legs enemy”. The pigs act even more like humans when they carry around whips. “Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him. He carried a whip in his trotter” (Orwell 117). Whips are a object humans use to gather up and control animals. The pigs make one of their largest role changes from animal to human at the end of the novel. The pigs invite the humans to the farm for “a little tour”. “A week later, in the afternoon, a number of dog carts drove up to the farm. A deputation of neighbouring farmers had been invited to make a tour of inspection. They were shown all over the farm, and expressed great admiration for everything they saw” (Orwell 119). This was the final example that the pigs go to act like humans and go as far as to invite them over to their farm and a dinner party. Not only did the pigs invite humans to their farm, but invite them to a dinner party to talk and drink