Animal Farm By George Orwell

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Term Paper Title	Animal Farm By George Orwell
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Animal Farm By George Orwell

The political satire Animal Farm was a novel written by George Orwell in 1945. The story takes place on Manor Farm, a farm lying in England in the mid-twentieth century. One day it is taken over by its farm animals and therefore renamed Animal Farm.
Since George Orwell was also a political commentator for several newspapers, this book is not only a book to entertain but a satire and a critique which reflects persons and events from the Russian Revolution.

Old Major assembled all animals of Manor Farm together after their master and owner Mr. Jones had gone to bed, and he was not a human military officer, but an old Middle White pig. He was telling the animals about a dream he already had when he was a young pig. In his address he stated that all mankind is evil and therefore every animal had to hold together to overthrow the human race one day. The old boar couldn't tell the exact time when the revolution would take place, but he promised that it would happen one day. At the end of his speech he taught all animals the song called "Beasts of England", a song pointing out his believes, and the tune was picked up by the animals who were starting to sing it immediately.
This song included the essence of Old Major's teachings. Some details were:

"[...] Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown,
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall be trod by beasts alone.
[...]
For that day we all must labour,
Though we die before it break;
Cows and horses, geese and turkeys,
All must toil for freedom's sake[...]."

Old Major could be compared with Karl Marx, the father of communism, since the teachings of both Old Major and Karl Marx contain the same ideas and beliefs, that the labor class will overtake and everything will be shared equally afterwards. Three days after telling the animals about the Rebellion Old Major died, and it became the task of the pigs who were the smarter animals on the farm to develop Old Major's teachings from there on. There had been three pre-eminent pigs: Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer. Snowball was an excellent speaker, but Napoleon was considered to have a greater depth in character. Squealer, however, was a gifted talker who was always able to persuade anyone, as he was twisting other opinions around and made others believe what he wanted them to believe. So it became the pigs' duty to prepare the other animals for the Rebellion.

The Rebellion came one day, sooner than ...

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