Revolutions Are Not Worth The Time: Animal Farm By George Orwell

Revolutions Are Not Worth the Time A revolution can be defined as a forceful overthrow of the government or all those in favor of a new system that will change a society. Revolutions are often times harsh and can really make or break any society. Revolutions take a numerous amount of time and effort and in the end, it sometimes makes things worse, not better. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell there are three revolutions that really change the farm. In the beginning, the animals did not like the way things were running, so they saw these revolutions as an opportunity to gain what they wanted which was freedom and to overthrow the humans. Not only do revolutions happen in this novel, they happen in the real world too. The American Revolution was a big event in history that changed America from what it had once been. Although many

When the Battle of the Cowshed started coming towards the end, the rest of the farm were all in dismay from all the animals that were gone. As the animals moped around their dear dead friends, George Orwell states, “The sight of their dead comrades stretched upon the grass moved some of them to tears. And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood” (Orwell 104). All of the dead animals’ ideas disappeared and the farm was not the same after the battle had happened. During the American Revolution, lots of lives were lost and America was never the same again. “Throughout the course of the war, an estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, 6,100 wounded, and upwards of 20,000 were taken prisoner” (“Saving the Battlefields of Where America Was Forged”). This proves that way too many people were injured or killed during this revolution, which left the opportunities of many to be