Oppression In George Orwell's Animal Farm

George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, can be easily compared to countries and events in modern-day because of its exploration into oppression. One way oppression has been created in modern-day events, Animal Farm and today’s countries is through the control of information. The control of information has created oppression in countries like North Korea and Russia. The Russian Revolution was a time of corrupted government in Russia and the Russian government-controlled what their people saw and heard which caused them to be oppressed. North Korea also uses this technique to oppress their people. Orwell’s novel shows how control of information can create ignorance that leads to oppression; the allegorical meanings of the novel show that this same

The animals’ oppression stems from the pigs’ false information when Squealer states that, “Snowball has sold himself to Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, who is even now plotting to attack us and take our farm away from us!” (Orwell 48). Squealer states that Snowball has sold himself to a neighboring farm just to attack them and steal the farm back; however the information is false leading to the animals oppression.Squealer oppresses the animals by convincing the animals that, “ However, Squealer easily convinced them that the veterinary surgeon in Willingdon could treat Boxer’s case more satisfactorily than could be done on the farm . . . They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s!” (Orwell 72). Squealer saying that the surgeon from Willingdon could treat Boxer’s case more easily than the farm could was another way the pigs’ used their control over information to oppress the animals. The pigs did not really buy Boxer a doctor, but the animals did not know that because the pigs control of information. Napoleon and the rest of the pigs, in fact, are the reason the animals on the farm are oppressed because they control the information that is spread around the farm and do not let anyone know the

In Animal Farm all the information was controlled by the pigs just like how the information during the Russian Revolution was monitored by the Russian government. The control of information during the Russian Revolution and Animal Farm is shown when Gillespie and Naden state that, “Napoleon may be likened to Stalin, the former despotic ruler of the Soviet Union. He is ruthless in carrying out his plans for his own betterment.” Animal Farm demonstrates that oppression is created through the control of information because Napoleon, who was linked to Stalin, used one main tactic in Animal Farm and it was to control the information that was spread around the farm. The authors of the Russian Revolution article state that, “ Napoleon concentrates on the advantages he can gain for himself; and whereas Snowball plans, activities out in the open, Napoleon plots secretly, as when he covertly trains the dogs.” (Gillespie and Naden). Napoleon plots secretly which is a way he controls the information that goes around the farm and he only does this for his own benefit. Napoleon plots secretly which is a way he controls the information that goes around the farm and he only does this for his own