Pigs walking on two feet, horses and sheep talking. This is how George Orwell satirizes human nature in his classic novel Animal Farm. Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The title of the book is also the setting for the action in the novel. The animals in the story decide to have a revolution and take control of the farm from the humans. Soon the story shows us how certain groups move from the original ideals of the revolution to a situation where there is domination by one group and submission by all the others. The major idea in this story is the political corruption of what was once a pure political ideal. Orwell uses satire to ridicule human traits in his characters such as Napoleon and Squealer. There are several different characters in the novel utilizing animals as symbols of people in real life du
finally corrupted which proves one of Orwell's main themes in this story true. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Napoleon and Squealer are just two of the many characters that George Orwell uses to satirize human nature in his novel Animal Farm. Orwell combines fable, satire and allegory to show the personality of human beings through animals. He also uses allegory to make his story much like the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the aftermath. The truth of human nature, greed , laziness, and deceitfulness is portrayed in the power hungry pigs. The society that the animals once dreamed of is
Squealer is short, fat and nimble. Just the image of a pig. Squealer is so persuasive that he could turn black into white! This is just what he does again and again throughout the story. Every time that the pigs take more power a
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