Analysis Of Animal Farm By George Oswell - 1094 Words

Animal Farm is a story written by George Oswell and is an amusing but heartbreaking mockery on the dominance of Soviet communism and the Russian revolution in the form of a fairy tale featuring animals who can talk, walk and live amongst each other trying to survive day to day struggles of life on the farm in which the animals live. The setting of the story takes place in England in a field where the close knit group of animal’s rebel against their owner Mr. Jones and forge an extraordinary attack against Manor Farm which they rename to â€Å"Animal Farm†, they go on to destroy everything that reminded them of Mr. Jones but sadly their hopes of bringing betterment to their lives, egalitarianism will soon be thwarted as a pig designated as the†¦show more content†¦Napoleon concocts a plan to get rid of Snowball so that only he would be in charge of the farm allowing him full control over the animals, he first makes everyone believe that Snowball stole the idea of building a windmill from Napoleon when in fact it was Snowball’s idea. Later in the fall, Jones and his men return to Animal Farm and attempt to retake it. Thanks to the tactics of Snowball, the animals defeat Jones in what thereafter becomes known as The Battle of the Cowshed. Winter arrives, and Mollie, a vain horse concerned only with ribbons and sugar, is lured off the farm by another human. Snowball begins drawing plans for a windmill, which will provide electricity and thereby give the animals more leisure time, but Napoleon vehemently opposes such a plan on the grounds that building the windmill will allow them less time for producing food. On the Sunday that the pigs offer the windmill to the animals for a vote, Napoleon summons a pack of ferocious dogs, who chase Snowball off the farm forever. Napoleon announces that there will be no further debates; he also tells them that the windmill will be built after all and lies that it was his own idea, stolen by Snowball. For the rest of the novel, Napoleon uses Snowball as a scapegoat on whom he blame s all of the animals hardships. Napoleon s lust for power increases to the point where he becomes a totalitarian dictator, forcing confessions from innocent animals and having