Societal Concern In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Societal concern is putting others before you and caring about them while individual concern is doing whatever it takes to get what you desire. Animal Farm is a short novella that is based off of the Russian Revolution of 1917 with each animal symbolizing an actual person written by George Orwell. It commences when Old Major calls a meeting declaring the equality of all animals. The animals on the farm soon overthrow the humans and renames the farm from Manor Farm to Animal Farm. They set up a list of commandments they all must obey. Everything is going smoothly, but it all takes a sudden twist when a pig becomes power-crazed and puts the other pigs and himself before others. The symbolism in Animal Farm reveals that noble societal concerns

The animals’ societal concerns for their fellow comrade was manipulated by their leader’s individual concerns for the pigs and himself, thus ruining everything. Near the end of the novella, Boxer went to go drag stone to the windmill but has fallen onto his side and was not able to stand back up. Squealer had announced that Napoleon called the hospital in Willingdon to come take Boxer, but it was actually a van that was heading to the knacker’s, “‘Fools! Fools!’ shouted Benjamin, prancing round them and stamping the earth with his small hoofs. ‘Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?’ (...) But Benjamin pushed her aside and in the midst of a deadly silence he reads: “Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels supplies.” Do you not understand what that means? They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s!’ A cry of horror burst from all the animals” (Orwell 122). In a way, Boxer represents the dedicated communist supporters who eventually get tricked by their tyrant of a leader, Stalin, or in this case, Napoleon the pig. From the very beginning of the Revolution to now, Boxer had become and stayed a hardworking, strong horse who was dedicated and believed in the Animal Farm and the

Napoleon’s actions seems like a societal concern at first, but deeper into the story, it becomes clear that he was only isolating the puppies for his own individual concerns regarding only himself. Near the beginning of the novella, Napoleon took the nine sturdy puppies away into a loft right after they were born to educate them. The puppies were soon forgotten and were never brought out of the loft until one day. The nine not fully grown dogs were ordered to attack the traitors who were supposedly still in alliance with Snowball, “Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn. In a moment the dogs came bounding back. At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately. Though not yet full-grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce-looking as wolves. They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones” (Orwell 53). The actual reason why Napoleon wished to isolate the puppies from society was to teach them the things he wanted them to learn. If the pig was the only animal from the outside world teaching and caring for them, it is in the puppies’ natural instincts to obey that one animal or person. To the