Animal Farm

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   clane Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

   Orwell sets the story up really well because the animals feel like they are under the bureaucratic rule of Mr. Jones. They feel as though there is too much control placed on their lives and they desire more freedom. The animals plan and execute their revolution leaving them totally free. No party, animals or people, can be totally without rules and laws so the pigs take control, promising that the food will be plentiful as well as the freedom. As the pigs gain more and more power the animals lose more and more freedom until they are worse off than they were under the rule of Mr. Jones. Since the story is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism namely of Stalin and Trotsky, Orwell successfully shows the blind stupidity of the people who thought that they would be gaining more freedom by allowing Stalin to take control and learned what they ultimately gave up as a result when it was too late. 

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   Posted by clane on Wednesday December 19, 2007 at 6:28 PM
   
   

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