The decline of freedom (animal
The decline of freedom (animalThe Decline of Freedom on Animal Farm
The simple idea of a world with no humans was introduced to the animals by a pig named Old Major. This led to a revolution like no other. The animals of Animal Farm, a book by George Orwell, decide that there has to be something better for them than the life they are living. It is dominated by humans who treat the animals with little respect for all the things the animals do for them. After a great injustice is done to them a revolution takes place. The animals try to survive by themselves in a peaceful, democratic way, but one pig named Napoleon enjoys the taste of power and turns it into a dictatorship. Throughout the whole story, the animal’s rights, along with their freedom and equality, which they fought so hard to gain begins to disappear. With equal blame on the thirst for power from Napoleon and the willingness to follow authority no matter what happens from the animals such as Boxer, the perfect world which the animal’s dreamed of becomes worse then they had ever thought possible.
Napoleon, a selfish, manipulative pig, decides that he wants power and will gain it using as much force as he needs. Napoleon decides that Animal Farm would be better off with a strong leader to take care of all the decisions and he believes that he is the pig for the job. He takes over the farm by force with a group of “nine dogs wearing brass-studded collars” (p.67). He then announces that “ from now on the Sunday-morning meetings would come to an end”(p.68) which eliminates the voting process and all that was left of the democratic process. He also forces the animals to work longer then ever before with less rations. It is obvious that Napoleon does not care for the animals. He
only cares about his well being and getting as much power as possible. This is evident when he starts doing business with the humans just to get more money. This goes against everything Animal Farm stood for when Old Major first thought of it. Napoleon’s ability to gain a lot of power in such a small time was...
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