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Social Class Inequality In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, is a fairy story that talks about animals overthrow the man who is the farm’s owner, and then there is one group becomes the capitalist instead the previous owner; this farm reveals a vicious cycle of tyranny. The story shows about capitalism and class structure of social class system between proletariat and bourgeoisie who owned the capital—the farm in order to exploit and govern the working class. We can clearly see that Animal Farm indicates the different social class and the politics of the capitalist, these interested me to discuss about them. The social class inequality in the story shows how the difference between the working class and the middle class is. The working class enslaved by the oppressive …show more content…

Indeed, it focuses on the politics of the capitalist. Knowing that the middle class oppresses the working class, they also rule or govern the politics. Firstly, bourgeoisie rules by denying proletariat to gain the benefits because of they are lower class —the pigs, dogs and men are the alliance; they govern the other animals. The pigs and men represent government and dogs as guard that rule the farm. According to the story, Napoleon is the only one candidate, he becomes a President or another truly word is the officially director. This shows us know that even there is the election; the pigs are still dominating the other animals by threaten them with the dogs so that no one braves enough to apply to be candidate as usual as they are afraid of the pigs and the partisan, the proletariat whatever dictate the other one. Furthermore, the fierce dogs, Napoleon’s partisan, are the guard who arrest the rebels by killing them in front of the other animals for frightfulness. We can see that the politics of capitalist form the oppression of the lower class or the individual class. Those who have power in system only concern to keep maintaining their power by any tools necessary. Another is that the middle class control the working class and prevent interests to be a private ownership to the common ownership. In fact, the middle class want to own interests. Animal Farm, the pigs trade and deal with men—claims that

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