Animal Farm
Having so much power is not always a good thing. In George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, this is proved to an almost scary extent where the characters are mainly animals, not people. In this novel, the animals speak to each other as humans would talk to other humans, making the novel very interesting to read. The point I am trying to make here as it is proven time and time again in history, as well as in this book, is that absolute power corrupts; and it corrupts absolutely. It all starts on The Manor Farm, where Old Major (the elder pig), makes an announcement. He includes in his speech that one day the animals will revolt against the humans taking charge of them, and treating them unjustly. He ends his speech with a song, called the Beasts of England that he taught the animals from his childhood. On the farm were two pigs who Mr. Jones (the owner of Manor Farm) was breeding up for sale. One was Snowball, the other, Napoleon. Snowball was more of a talker and Napoleon more likely to take action. The rest of the pigs were porkers and there was a little fat one that was well known to most of the animals on the farm and was very persuasive, he was called Squealer. There were also sheep, chickens, and horses, the only one w
orth mentioning is Boxer out of the lot. Boxer was the strongest animal and the hardest worker on the farm, and so, as you could imagine, was a great help to it. As time passed, so did Old Major, and Mr. Jones was treating the animals unfairly. One night, he got drunk and didn't come back for a whole day and even when he did, the animals were not fed. As a result the animals had enough and took a stand, they chased Mr. Jones and his men off the farm as they called it their own. Celebrations followed and life was good for the animals, they even changed the name of the farm, and got rid of anything that reminded them of humans or Mr. Jones. A few months passed and the pigs revealed that they could now read and write. As a result of this, Snowball set up the "Seven Commandments" that every animal must follow with no exceptions, but the main idea was that all animals are equal. Later that evening however, it was noticed that some of the animals' food was missing after they got back from harvesting. During the harvest the pigs did absolutely no work at all, but supervised the other animals doing the work. This was just the beginning of corruption. Snowball and Napoleon were never in agreement with each other and constantly had debates about the future of the farm. Later on, it was discovered by the animals that the milk has been mixed into the pigs' mash every day and all of a sudden, the apples were also ordered to go to the pigs for supposed "safe keeping". Around the world, however, rumors have been spreading of a successful farm by which was run by animals. This caused many outbursts of strange animal behavior, and gave Mr. Jones incentive to go back to get his farm. His six men and himself were gored, kicked, trampled, and bitten almost to death. One was thought to be dead and boxer exclaimed that he did not mean to kill the lad, but he was only stunned and ran off afterwards. The battle was named "The Battle of Cowshed" because that was where the ambush of Jones took place. By now it was decided that since pigs were the smartest of the animals, they would decide farm policy and have a majority vote to see what passes and what
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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