The animals in a farm named Manor Farm attempt to assert their Otherness in contrast to the oppressive human interference through a Rebellion. The word Rebellion appears with a capital ‘R’, as if the animals have almost found their harmony with deifying the act of Othering. The capitalized ‘Rebellion’ seems a raw simulation of the anthropocentric deity-figure that appears in grand narratives of the religious kind. The Rebellion of Manor Farm turns bloody and resembles in all its subtlety the Eurocentric notions of political upheavals.
A certain social order prevails in the post-rebellion Manor Farm. This social order resembles or rather mimics a system originated in the polity that followed European upheavals, Socialism. The preconceived notions …show more content…
All animals are equal” (15).
These commandments proclaim the maxim "Four legs good, two legs bad!" and this maxim has been promoted by the sheep on the farm to interrupt with the nature and policies of Animalism. According to Snowball, “Whoever had thoroughly grasped it would be safe from human influences” (21). Snowball devotes his time and energy for educating other animals of the farm by culturing them with the Seven Commandments that he inscribes on the barn wall hoping it would bring Animalism in their character. The purpose is to ensure the farm animals live like animals by keeping their identity and are recommended not to follow and imitate the human beings. Napoleon is presented as the prototype of an avaricious man who with his cunningness by wearing the mask of a decent leader commands the rights of other animals as if his actions are done for the progress of the farm. In order to assert his plans to usurp the farm and rule its subjects as a totalitarian authority, Napoleon alters the commandments by mimicking the original ones and altering then ever so slightly. The altered commandments are as follows:
1 “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”. (45)
2 “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess”. …show more content…
From his writing, it’s evident that Orwell’s goal in Animal Farm is to encapsulate the Russian Revolution of 1917 with its ultimate impact on the life of the people. Many of the characters and events of Animal Farm replicate the cream of the Russian Revolution. “The text does indeed stand alone to reveal Orwell's consistent belief not only in democratic Socialism, but in the possibility of a democratic Socialist revolution, but there is also a considerable body of evidence outside Animal Farm that can be shown to corroborate this interpretation” (Letemendia 127). Letemendia elaborates that “Animal Farm was, according to its author, an attempt to strip away the mythical veil shrouding the Stalinist regime; simultaneously, however, he was trying to renew what had been lost through this deception and to revive the original spirit of the Socialist movement” (132). Animal Farm when viewed through the discourse of mimicry, a liberated society appears to succumb to those leaders and their strategic invention of a copy of ideological metonymy of the same liberation that helped them imagine the very reality of animal farm in the first
A certain social order prevails in the post-rebellion Manor Farm. This social order resembles or rather mimics a system originated in the polity that followed European upheavals, Socialism. The preconceived notions …show more content…
All animals are equal” (15).
These commandments proclaim the maxim "Four legs good, two legs bad!" and this maxim has been promoted by the sheep on the farm to interrupt with the nature and policies of Animalism. According to Snowball, “Whoever had thoroughly grasped it would be safe from human influences” (21). Snowball devotes his time and energy for educating other animals of the farm by culturing them with the Seven Commandments that he inscribes on the barn wall hoping it would bring Animalism in their character. The purpose is to ensure the farm animals live like animals by keeping their identity and are recommended not to follow and imitate the human beings. Napoleon is presented as the prototype of an avaricious man who with his cunningness by wearing the mask of a decent leader commands the rights of other animals as if his actions are done for the progress of the farm. In order to assert his plans to usurp the farm and rule its subjects as a totalitarian authority, Napoleon alters the commandments by mimicking the original ones and altering then ever so slightly. The altered commandments are as follows:
1 “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”. (45)
2 “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess”. …show more content…
From his writing, it’s evident that Orwell’s goal in Animal Farm is to encapsulate the Russian Revolution of 1917 with its ultimate impact on the life of the people. Many of the characters and events of Animal Farm replicate the cream of the Russian Revolution. “The text does indeed stand alone to reveal Orwell's consistent belief not only in democratic Socialism, but in the possibility of a democratic Socialist revolution, but there is also a considerable body of evidence outside Animal Farm that can be shown to corroborate this interpretation” (Letemendia 127). Letemendia elaborates that “Animal Farm was, according to its author, an attempt to strip away the mythical veil shrouding the Stalinist regime; simultaneously, however, he was trying to renew what had been lost through this deception and to revive the original spirit of the Socialist movement” (132). Animal Farm when viewed through the discourse of mimicry, a liberated society appears to succumb to those leaders and their strategic invention of a copy of ideological metonymy of the same liberation that helped them imagine the very reality of animal farm in the first