Animal Farm

[Unregistered]

I read your essay and it is one of the most brilliant essay's I have ever read, well done!

[Eliot Lash]

Nice work on the paper! I also need to write a paper, now I have some jumping-off points for resarch. Thank you!<br><br>One note: when you said "As Trotsky gained more power, it was imperative for him to eliminate any who might challenge it," I think you meant Stalin. Other than that, I could find no flaws.

[Young Reader]

As an eigth grader..i read this essay and thought...how wonderful this essay was. I envy you so very much for not only is your writing exceptional, but also quite interesting. rarely, in my life have i seen an exquisite work of art. i do hope that you consider becoming an author when you finish college. Sincerely, Charity the Young Reader

[Rach]

As a book critic, I find myself reading books by people who are trying to get a message across. It is hard to do this in a way that is unique and intresting. This is a book that adults enjoy as they can knowledgly accept the meaning and enjoy this book. Children can also enjoy it even though they don't understand the point that's getting across. If they enjoy it at a young age, they will want to read it again until finally they understand it. I think this is a stunning book which should accept our encouragment.

[Dayna]

Can this book's story not be applied to the Us? or other countries?<br>Think about the war of independence from Britain and how things<br>have changed in the US since.

[the cougar mech]

i like this book because it describes very accurately what was happening in the Russian Revolution but it is very dark and frequently hints of corruption and inequality with the pigs becoming more and more like dictators.

[Unregistered]

um this essay is a piece of worthless trash, you have not gotten the detail from the book. What about irony?or propaganda in animal farm, i don't think you put your heart into this essay, and if you were going to put something good on the site, why didn't you put something that people could actully use the essay for!!

[s.c]

i thought that your essay was excellent, i could easily notice that you worked extremely hard on it. oove, from south africa<br>

[NADINE]

Thank you for letting us read your essay I too am currently doing an essay on the character Napoleon. i found you essay to be very good and helpful. Thanks

[Thomas]

I'm kinda wondering what grade you're in because i'm in grade 9 and our class has to do an essay on animal farm. I'd like to thank you for the wonderful read and the helpful points you gave. Be asured, i am not going to copy your essay,although it was pretty good.

[doc]

i have an essay due on communism if you have any additional information on the topic in communism please feel free to elaborate on it for i would be real appreciative. By the way, that is really good. Your essay is brilliant it ranks in the top of all of the essays i have ever read. <br><br>thank you,<br><br>Doc

[Giovanna]

It is quite interseting. I did not actaully think that anyone would actually read this. I appreciate all the comments even the negative ones; my teacher was not terribly fond of this essay either.<br>As Eliot noted: yes, in paragrah five I did mistakenly put Trotsky instead of Stalin.<br>I am in 10th grade, but I did this at the end of 9th to get into Accelerated English. <br>Worthless trash is a redundant statement.<br>

[Unregistered]

my opinion of this essay is absolute trash. what were you thinking when you wrote this piece of crap? how can any of you appreciate this and call it brilliant writing? if there was an award for overlooking every crucial detail in the novel, you'd win it hands down. just out of curiousity how did you do on this essay? i woulda given it a 70 because it had half decent points that were supported fairly well.

[liddy]

your essay was quit amazing, i have just recently finished doing a play of animal farm,i played the character mollie,and my director had much of the same insite as you did. Right now i am writting an essay on animal farm, and well i am haveing a hard time with it, but your paper really helped me understand the events in the russian revolution related to animal farm. Your essay is really great and dont listen to the negative comments that people are giving you!<br>love, liddy<br>

[Paublo]

Do you have anything in this book that you noticed could tie into George Orwell's life? I'm doing a paper on Orwell and need to know how Orwell's life was shown in his book, Animal farm. I need 40 sources on a ten page paper, I think I might die! PLease get back with some responce as soon as possible. Good essay, needs some work though, a bit short sighted.<br>From another Tenth Grader

[emilee]

Your essay was very well written except for a couple of grammatical errors that I found. I am also in 10th grade. I love proof-reading stuff and editing it. I hope you don't mind that I did that with your essay. Here's how I would have written it (although I'm sure I made mistakes also)!<br><br> George Orwell gives a very vivid and accurate account in “Animal Farm” of what happened in Russia after Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Being an allegory, most of the characters and events have a parallel in Stalinist Russia. Minor characters in the story also symbolize things that are very relevant to the history of Russia. For example, Mr. Jones represents the embodiment of the old government, and of the monarchy where the autocrat takes all without giving anything. The last of the Czars, Czar Nicholas II, lost control because the spark of reformation had been ignited by the publishing of Karl Marx’s book, “Communist Manifesto”, which led to the successful February Revolution. In the book, Farmer Jones lost control of the animals after they got the spirit of revolution from Old Major’s speech and revolted against Farmer Jones and all other humans. The outcome was a successful rebellion. After Old Major died and Jones was gone, the Animals, ironically, needed a leader to be in charge of the new Animal Farm, where they were all free and equal. <br><br> Pigs were considered the most intelligent, and out of them, Snowball and Napoleon were the most prominent. In real life, Trotsky and Stalin fought for power, but Stalin eventually eliminated Trotsky, having him expelled from Russia. In the same manner, Snowball and Napoleon constantly disputed. Napoleon was already hungry for power and soon after the Rebellion, had plans of getting rid of his opponent. <br><br> In the midst of an eloquent speech by Naplolean about the plans for making a windmill, Napoleon directed the dogs he had raised, to attack Snowball. Thus, he had eliminated his only rival and was free to control the farm. Upon the expulsion of Snowball, Napoleon’s first decision was to eradicate the Sunday Morning Meetings. “They were unnecessary”, he said, “and wasted time.” In the future, all questions relating to the work of the farm would be settled by a special committee of the pigs, and presided over by himself.” (Orwell, 68) This is also very much like the Command Economy that Stalin had made, in which the government made all economic decisions. Napoleon’s next decision was to build the windmill that he had been so opposed to when proposed by Snowball. Likewise, Trotsky had proposed a five-year Plan for the industrialization of Russia, and Stalin had opposed to it. After Trotsky was gone, Stalin had no economic ideas of his own; “In a word, he put into practice the dictatorship of industry for which Trotsky had called five years earlier.” (Ovseyenko, 70) The windmills, therefore, represent the five-year Plans, or Russia’s Industry.<br><br> As Stalin gained more power, it was imperative for him to eliminate any that might challenge it. He also decided to keep a bodyguard around him to prevent any harm from coming to him. Keeping this in mind, he assigned a “secret police” to assassinate people who were against him, and to keep him safe. This special army was most known as KGB or the Committee of State Security. In the book, Napoleon needed his personal army also, and this was the dogs’ actual purpose. “When they had finished confessing their crimes, the dogs promptly tore their throats out....” (Orwell, 93) Napoleon then asked if anyone else had any crimes to confess, and they were executed immediately.<br><br> Pinchfield, one of the farms bordering Animal Farm, symbolizes Germany. Stalin made the Non- Aggressive Pact with Hitler to keep Germany from attacking Russia during World War II. Germany attacked Russia, nonetheless, breaking the pact and forcing Russia to join the Allies. Likewise, Napoleon had made a deal to sell a pile of lumber to Fredrick of Pinchfield. Napoleon had trusted him, but in turn Fredrick had given him fake bank notes and was coming to attack them. He, like Hitler attacking Russia, had ignored the deal, swindled Napoleon and attacked Animal Farm. <br><br> “You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements,” stated Norman Douglas. In “Animal Farm”, Squealer the pig was very persuasive and “.... could turn black into white.” (Orwell 36) He communicated to all the other animals what Napoleon had said, and always convinced them that it was right, whether it truly was or not. He is a symbol of Stalin’s propaganda machine, the Pravda. The people had no other source of information, and Stalin needed to manipulate the media. He took control of the publication, making it work for his needs, so the people were oblivious to what was actually occurring. <br><br> The proletariats were the easiest to convince and were most attached to Stalin, being that the system would benefit them most and were not educated. Examples of this from “Animal Farm”, are the horses, Boxer and Clover. They were faithful, hard working, and never doubted the system. We can also see how important the unskilled labor class was in order for everything to work well also. “Nothing could have been achieved without Boxer, whose strength was equal to that of all the rest of the animals put together.” (Orwell 74) Mollie, on the other hand, represents the middle class workers, who got paid more. They were unsatisfied that they were getting paid less and they wanted their “sugar”. Muriel represents the minority of the working educated class; they could make decisions and think for themselves. Muriel was not spirited enough to incite another rebellion against the corruption that was happening. <br><br> At the end of the book, the pigs become indiscernible from the humans. In his book, Orwell has made humans represent the people who exploit those weaker than them. The pigs had become corrupters of their own. “ Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals richer themselves- except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.” (Orwell 129) Manor Farm is the tyrannical nation, while Animal Farm is the Communist or “Animalist” one. When Napoleon states that the name of the farm is once again, “Manor”, he is affirmatively stating that the totalitarianism is installed once more.<br><br> Animal Farm is concluded with the animals being exploited by the pigs; it is a dark ending, but it is brutally true. The idea of Socialism, or Animalism, is good as ideal. Human nature will not allow the leaders, who are always necessary, to be fair. Orwell did an excellent job of weaving the history of Stalinist Russia with the fairy idea of animals that speak and think. <br>

[Jennifer]

I liked your essay, I am doing a research paper for college, on George Orwell, and three of his works, and animal farm is one. Even thought you wrote that in 9th grade and I am a freshman in college, i still found it somewhat informative.

[Giovanna]

Amazing. Truly amazing. I am glad that this essay has helped someone, and yet I am also glad to know that not everyone finds it brilliant; by the way, I never claimed it was awsome or superb or anything. Nonetheless, I truly do appreciate your comments, anonymous person :) Do not be anonymous, I would like to converse with you about the details I overlooked. <br>I know I am not the best writer, and no matter how hard you work on any form of writing, it can always be improved. Always. And like I also said before, you were not the only critic of the essay, but my teacher also. She seems to have a dislike for my sense of essay structure and organization. I got a B- on this essay, not what I expected, of course, but most likely what I deserved. <br>It is wonderful to get negative comments! I do not mean to be supercilious or disdainful, but it irks me terribly to do peer editing in class and getting my paper back with smiley faces with "great job," "excellent essay" written all over it, because I know there must be something wrong with it, something redundant, something lacking.<br>Animal Farm is a great book and doing the essay helped me, for in history we are now studying the Russian Revolution, and I have a background to work with.<br>I wish you all the best in your assginments, and keep up the reading, for that is the only mean for advancement of the mind!

[Unregistered]

I am in Honors English 9 & we read Animal Farm in our class. I thought that your essay was very helpful in trying to understand how Animal Farm relates to real life. You did a wonderful job explaining the novel. <br>Thank You for your help.<br>

[Unregistered]

For all you people who didn't like this essay, I have a question for you guys, can you do better than this? If you can, can you please show it? Oh by the way, this essay was amazing, very detailed.

[Unregistered]

Dont you think that Orwell was criticizing the Allies as well as Russia?<br><br>Reply to: [email protected]

[colleen]

I honestly think the essay written by Giovanna is quite good! Disregarding a few errors (as aforementioned by the one who corrected the essay), it is very well thought out, and it is wonderful to read the work of somebody that can WRITE!! I am in an eleventh grade Government course, and currently in the process of researching for a book analysis of Animal Farm. In reading the essay, I found some helpful parallels that I will need to successfully write my paper-- Paraphrased, of course. :) (I, personally, am a bit surprised you received only a B- for your work. You use gorgeous, vivid language in your writing; I loved reading it!)

[Susan]

Its funny i am doing the exact same thing right now, and this eassy really helped me out, so thanks for that.. It was a lil hard to understand in some parts but no complaints otherwise...<br><br>

[John]

This is quite useful as I am studying Animal Farm for my GCSE course. However, I feel that a comparison to another Orwell book(1984) would really help those in higher education, and those who are interested in Orwell's pieces of art.

[Unregistered]

Thank you to the person who posted that essy. It helpped me alot with the essay i had to write for my 8th grade english class. It is evident that much work and effort was put in, adn i find it generous to share your research with the public.<br><br>Thank You<br><br>

[Giovanna]

Arg. We finished the Russian Revolution, World War II and the fall of the USSR in history. In truth, I knew nothing of what I worte. I look at it now, and it is bad. Bad bad bad. Of course there are some details and some analyzing, but with what I know now, it was very superficial and there is so much that could have been done with it. <br> We are currently reading 1984 as well; ver dark book also. Quite different from Animal Farm, but still very pessimistic as to the USSR, as he rightly should be. Ah, I will shut up now. Next time I post an essay I will make it something really good.<br> Have a great day and a pleasant tomorrow : ) I know a lot about communism, but not enough for 40 sources and a 10 page paper. Sorry. And I guess my response is somewhat delayed.

[Neil P]

I feel sorry for you Paublo. 40 sources, that' a lot. Although, I hope you know that Orwell also wrote 1984, which he finished writing in 1948. To the anonymous that would give Giovanna's essay a 70, sure that were some things overlooked, but it did definitely not deserve a 70. To Giovanna, I liked your essay. I would have given it a 90 though because there were some points that you overlooked and you didn't really use any literary devices, but otherwise it was a good essay. You had some awesome outside information, I'm sure that you did a lot of researching and put a lot of effort into it. But I agree with you, essays can always be improved, no matter how slightly. Always.

[11th grader, believe it or not]

i made this up in about hour and is just a crappy review, NOT an essay...<br>this was supposed to be short, so there isn't any deeper thoughts...<br><br> The book tells about an ordinary farm in England, but the farm is then taken over by animals and the real owners of the farm are exiled. The whole book is based on fiction that the animals can think something and can speak. Pigs are the cleverest ones from the animals throughout the book. Pigs control everything and everyone; the farm has all the ‘usual’ farm-animals, for instance horses, cows, dogs and hens. <br> Story starts from the animal’s first thoughts of the revolution. At this point a pig called “Major” is the leader of the animals. Soon after the beginning “ Old Major” dies and then there are two leader pigs; “Snowball” and “Napoleon”. The animals make a revolution and seven commandments, which every animal must follow. Commandments are like “no animal shall kill any other animal”.<br> Then the animals start to make food just for themselves instead of making for humans also. At this point humans try to capture the farm back, but fail and animals start to celebrate that day. Now the Napoleon starts to get more power and he takes 9 puppies and raises them in secret in order to get bodyguards for himself. After some time Snowball is “caught” from traitory and is exiled. After that event Snowball is being blamed from every accident and drawback. At this time there is Napoleon as the only leader, though there are several other smaller pigs. Because the animals are so stupid, except pigs, they believe the whole story about Snowball being traitor. <br> Then there are several smaller happenings, but the biggest is the building of a windmill, though this idea was originally introduced by Snowball in the beginning and Napoleon opposed it at that time. Now and then there are some things happening, which are against the seven commandments, but always when the animals go and re-read the laws, the pigs have changed them a little in secret for making their actions ‘legal’. <br> At the end, pigs make the whole thing upside down and break all the rules of the idea called “Animalism”, by walking on two legs, wearing human clothes and meeting humans. There is only one commandment by the end of the book: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. <br> The whole idea of this book is to make communism look stupid and to reveal all its weak points. Napoleon is a bit like Stalin, Snowball reminds me of Trotski, with whom Stalin had several difficulties, and Major is like Marx. Even though this book is written during the 2nd World War, which was kind of madness because England was allied to Soviet Union and this book was published in England, George Orwell sees right to the spines of communism and shows the problems. Some things are clearly seen in this book, e.g. bribery, lies and hiding certain things from the people. The windmill symbolizes the industry and the five-year plans. Everyone would live happily if everyone would live like the communism means, but none does live like that in real life.<br> Genre is not hard to define in this case and I would say political satire, which sounds little confusing and boring, but it isn’t. I found this book quite entertaining, but you have to have some knowledge about Russia and it’s history, otherwise this book could be boring. Finding those similarities between communism and this story are the actual entertainment.<br> Even though this is politically oriented book, language is pretty simple. Only problem occurs in recognizing different animal names from each other, because there are several names for all species.<br>

[shell]

Giovanna, <br>it's obvious you have put in a fair amount of effort to cover the entire story and you have achieved complete coverage. However, i believe you should have gone into much more detail. I'm not talking about depth on the issues and occurances in the novel and during the Revolution, but instead on how a system of governance which was much glorified and adored actually works. <br><br>Perhaps you could refer to more symbols within the novel, hidden rather than the obvious. I think your essay is well-structured however you could put a lot more "heart" and deep thought into it. <br><br>You could balance it better as it seems very literal, and literal essays aren't the most exciting to read. However nice job. I hope you do not take offence to what i have said, but use it as constructive critisism.

[Unregistered]

Good, very good essay, you helped my English deadline, but how do you expect me to give you credits by telling the teacher, "Sir this essay is a total copy and paste!"

[Noyou]

I'm submitting this to my teaher lets see what mark will i get

[Eli]

I like the way you did this essay, I'm doing the book now for lit., and trying to do a project on it, this essay was a big help. Good on the Russian Revolution, I'm trying to do something on that, and I could use this. <br><br>~thirteen year old Eli

[Unregistered]

I read the essay and found it very interesting. I am currently doing animal farm in enlish, and this essay has helped me understand it.

[Roberto]

Too much congratulations for a detailed essay but at the same time very boring. It is not so important the historichal background that is beyond the novel because the powerful general sense and message is another one. Orwell's most pupose is to give us the understanding of the traps that are inside political propaganda and political language. Politics sometimes attempt to cheat masses exploiting their ignorance. So the fundamental law "Four legs,two legs better" is without more difficulties changed into the similar but much different sentence:"Four legs good,two legs better". Thanks to the similarity in sound of the last words(bad-better) and above all thanks to the ignorance of the mass(or sheeps if you prefer)pigs ,walking on two legs like their previous rulers,have succeed to dominate and submite the sheeps. I think that this is a more interesting key of reading Animal Farm!

[Unregistered]

I am form the uk and i am currently in year nine i am aware that this is a ver had book to understand but i think your essay is really good i hope you dont mind but i printed it off and showed my english teacher and she liked it as well but she did point out the mistakes that have already been mentioned.

[hello :-)]

I totally agree with what you have written. I am reading Animal Farm at school and I feel it is extremely important to for our modern society. I think that democracy is the best out of dictatorship, socialism, and communism. Utopia (perfect society)is impossible because human nature just doesn't work that way. I think everyone likes power and has a different opinion on everything. After reading this book by George Orwell, I don't think I will ever think about Karl Marx the same way I did before. I think he just got his principles wrong. <br><br>

[Phil]

I am an English teacher from England. I teach students aged 13 - 18. Your essay and enthusiasm for English is excellent. I wish my students were half as talented as you! Please keep reading and imagining and learning!

[Unregistered]

I liked your essay even if it does have some mistakes. I have just started 9th grade and "Animal Farm" is our chosen book to, and your essay has helped a lotso thank you. (I promise I didn't just copy and paste it!).

[Tofler]

<br>Sorry about this, but i dont see what everyone is praising you for. While most of your praise comes from much younger readers, it is understandable. I am afraid however, that if i tried to hand in an essay which miss's most of the relevent points that George Orwell was trying to make, i would be given a B- at best! It would of been a good essay done the night before if you were sleep depraved and running low on coffee..<br>Tofler

[Carlos]

Hi Giavanna: I was browsing about Orwell and found your work. I had not read him at school but wanted to do it now thanks to the Internet. Your essay gave me a good idea of what the book is about.<br><br>Good Luck,<br>Carlos<br>Lima, Peru

[dash]

hi i think this is a very good essay. i would like to use a few of your ideas for a vaguely similar essay that i need to do. i assure you i will not copy the whole essay and credit it as my own. thank you for understanding!!<br><br>anon

[Tara]

I read your essay as I am now also studying "Animal farm" for english, did this last year. Sure, there were some mistakes and it could have been improved, but I think overall you did a fantastic job! Two thumbs up! I'm also doing Revolutions next year, so this essay will definitely come in handy! If I end up writing an essay on "Animal Farm", I think I will also post it to see what people think. Thanks for the inspiration!

[Mon. S.]

Your essay was the best I've seen for many years. Wonderful. Exquisite!

[Chris]

Pretty nice essay, the only thing i have to say is, what was the point? It looks as if you wrote a summary, but essays concentrate on one topic, such as the events in Russia that are parallel to the events in Animal Farm. And you forgot to write about Lenin. He is another Crucial member that is parallel to the plot and characters in Animal Farm.<br><br>9/10<br><br>Chris. Colorado Springs, Colorado.

[Kara]

I too had to read this book for my English class, and I also had to write a report on the representation of all the characters. Your essay provided insight that will help me with this paper. Thank You!

[Brian]

Your essay was great! I'm in the 8th grade and I had to write an essay about Animal Farm. Your essay helped me a lot and I thank you for that. <br><br>P.S. Those anonymous people who say that your essay is nothing needs to get some glasses.

[Sabrina]

And no, i'm not gonna just copy you're essay. I had a plan to do an essay much like yours, and with your permission, I would like to use some of your sited sources. Of course, my essay will be different, because my teacher is very specific on essays, and to copy yours would be dishonorable and plagerism. I just wanted to thank you because I had no idea where to get some sources for my subject. I hope you recieved a good grade, because where I'm standing, you deserve at least a B, and I really needed something to guide me on my own essay. Again, thanks for the road map, and now I'm off to write my own essay!

[juli]

Orwell had a bitter hatred towards Stalinism and in fact this novel was quite pointed at the Soviet Union. He also argued that, if such was the choice, it would be better to be part of the American empire than under the thumb of Russia. <br>When I first read this book when I was 14 it blew me away. I understood exactly what the point of the story was. I was so envolved I could relate the anguish that the animals were going through.<br>I read it over a week-end and when I got back to school on Monday my teacher was amazed and I ended up taking this part of the English class.<br>To this day I understand the "spirit" of Comunisim -making people free and everybody getting a "fair share"- but unfortunately due to human nature (pride and greed) there will be people who are just in it for themselves.<br>Think how Boxer worked so hard for the windmill only to disapear. Many many people worked hard for the idea that comunisim set forth but ended up disapearing under Stalin's rule. He also orchestrated a massive famine in the Ukraine in which an estimated 5 million people died. It is believed that with the purges, forced famines, state terrorism, labor camps, and forced migrations, Stalin was responsible for the death of as many as 40 million people within the borders of the Soviet Union. According to former National Security Advisor to US President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stalin murdered an estimated 20 million people. Stalin killed more of his own people than Hitler did Jews. (6 million Jews died in WWII).<br><br>Stalin ended up being no different than the Czar in the end and Russia ended up worse than what it was before.<br> <br>Marx had a dream that everyone could participate and be looked after, no classes in society and the poor and needy looked after in our society, but I don't think that he saw that human nature is self serving not serving others. <br><br>There is much more depth to be found in this novel.<br><br>

[Hayullah]

In a couple of days , i will wright an essay about animal farm and i think yours is such a good essay that i can just say it is `perfect`. I would like to use your essay as an help , sent by God to me. Thank you very much .

[Jesse]

I believe that this essay wasn't "trash" as this anonymous person has been writing, I think that they have overlooked the whole point in the assignment and have tied in what their assignment may have been into what yours was, making it "trash". You have potential to become an incredible writer, if you keep up this way then you will surely do extremely well. I do have to agree, there were some points that were overlooked, like the critisism of the Allies as well. If the essay had of been longer it would have been much better, I have to say; in making it shorter your points weren't as strong as they could have been (and by the looks of it, you could easily make them stronger). otherwise, a truly excellent essay that surely deserves much credit!

[Unregistered]

Bloody brilliant !! Your essay is excellent, congrats.

[Roxie]

I found your paper when searching through the internet get a better understanding of the novel. My english 10 honors class is doing a project on it and I was confusing about it a bit. Your paper is good. I liked reading it. It wasn't one of those boring papers that babble on about nothing ( like most of mine do lol) anyways, good job!

[AlexM 11th Grade]

Damn u wrote this a long time ago. I have to tell you though, i did like your essay. The following things impressed me:<br> - Frequent connections between book and Revolution<br> - Good use of Topic Sentences<br> - You did NOT drift off on a tangent<br> - You were very 'to the point'.<br><br>Overall...Good Call

[Annie]

I just started reading Animal Farm. I have been doing some light research on Russia's history to help me to understand the book's symbols. Your paper was very helpful... thanks!

[naciimo]

hi Giovanna <br>i read your essay and it is wonderful <br>it is really well done <br>Congratulations

[pissed]

Karl Marx didn't get his principles wrong. Stalin, Mao, and Castro did. Don't confuse Marx's Scientific Socialism with tyrannical communism. People mistake marxism with stalinism, the first being a utopian view of society and the second the distortion of Marx's ideals. So please, study more about politics and don't let yourself be fooled by this cold war american propaganda!!!!

[y]

I think your essay was very well done, being a lover of the book myself I wanted to read it. One suggestion if I may, you might want to use more transition words in the essay (ie hitherto, therefore, lastly, secondly etc) By the way, what did you get on it? What grade was this for? All in all, good job.

[Unregistered]

I love this book and while I was reading and still, I wonder what role the character of Moses plays. I was thinking amybe the role of religion, as it was banded and how he kept leaving and coming back. Some animals believed him, maybe he represented what Lenin said "Religion is the opiate of the masses"<br><br>[email protected] e-mail me with your thoughts or just post it here

[laura]

i am in yr 10 and we're doing animal farm. our teacher works us really hard and i was trying to find out a bit more about the book, your essay was really helpful, it was really interesting and thankyou for putting out your work for others to read.

[Unregistered]

Sorry to be harsh...but that essay was rather institutionalised. you had a strong factual basis and that was excellent, but you could have ommitted the details that didnt fit in, you just slotted them in or tried to make a sentence for them, this was blatantly obvious and a major downfall of your essay. From this essay i have gathered that you dont have much of a natural writing talent, this is an insult to the great Orwell and his great literary works<br>replied by a 15 year old....how bad must you feel

[same guy as before]

I changed my mind, your is better than the other essays on this site...the other ppl just reviewed the book...we all know its a good book!

[Unregistered]

An excellent and detailed coverage of the relationship between Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution! Giavanna, great job done! Hmm...

[Unregistered]

Thanks for writing this. It ha helped me with an assignment I had to complete.

[suzie]

nice work!!! you amaze me!!! I'm doing an essay at the moment on Animal Farm except its only supposed to be 500 words. I have way too much information!!! Thanks it was really interesting!

[AGNESSA]

I am amazed at everyone who has found a way to dis or correct this exellent paper. And NO, i am not just saying this cause i'm a young student.Cause even though i am i still wanna say THANK YOU!!!<br>Whether you know this or not, i am from Russia. And i personally am proud,and happy to know that you would care enough about the Russian Revolution. If you really think your so smart, all you anonymous people, I would really love to see your paper on this book and Revolution. But you have to have an absolute flawless, wonderfully flowing paper. <br> <br><br> IMPOSSIBLE.! <br><br><br> WONDERFUL writen paper. Thankx!!! :)

[Unregistered]

nice paper. There is just no other words . GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!

[Alycia]

I did not read the entire essay, and it has been a while since I read the book, so I am not going to comment on that... but, I realise those people out there who are happy to plagarise don't care what others think, I am still going to say that you are evil and mean, and downright stupid.<br>

[takingback88]

hey man nice essay, i won't copy it now that i read it, i think you have some chance at becoming some sort of writer yourself, if not just a scientific writer. o, and what grade did u get on that essay?

[Louise]

I just want to say how much I enjoyed your essay, very well written, but your last comments about socialism were not accurate.<br>Socialism is not the same as Communism, so please do not confuse the two. It is possible to implement Socialism in a country and have it be successful, look at for example countries like Sweden, where I happen to be from. Communism on the other hand is what is equal to a utopia, a wonderful thought and ideal, but we are just never going to experience it, since it is just never going to be successfully implemented, thanks to, among other things, how easily certain individuals are corrupted. <br>I suggest that you read up on the difference between Socialism and Communism, because it is sad when the two are confused, thanks.

[fooser]

Giavanna<br><br>I first want to congratulate you here for an admirable effort. However, I can understand why your teacher gave you an average score. Understand first, that the essay is a literary device that is intended not just to inform and educate; but to more importantly -- persuade.<br><br>If this was submitted merely as a book report, then I would be inclined to give it a higher grade. Book reports, on average, are intended to simply "report the facts"; and this is the essence of "true" journalism. This normally will come off as "dry", but true reporting (journalism) usually is. When one wishes to go beyond "the facts", this is when we get into commentary and opinion pieces -- the essay.<br><br>The essay (and in the pinnacle of this device -- the novel) is the opportunity for the writer to "speak their mind". The chance to examine and interpret the subject matter, and then formulate their own opinion (in their own words) of not what they just "think" that the topic/author is to convey; but to actually "examine" to agree/disagree with the topic/author. Then finally -- to present your own contentions of the subject matter and persuade the reader to agree with those contentions.<br><br>My intent is not to be too hard on you. Your piece does go beyond a bit of the regular book report, but still falls short of being a true essay. You DO demonstrate some command of history here, but to be an "effective" essay; you also DO need to dig deeper. I understand that you are only still in high school, but I firmly believe that if you take this "loving criticism" to heart that you will be doing very well in college and on your way to becoming a very talented writer.<br><br>If you are that enamored by Orwell, then you should also check out this author and prime thinker as well:<br><br>http://www.levnavrozov.com/<br><br>Someone who was born and educated in Moscow, but has since become a U.S. citizen. He is described in the following manner:<br><br>"Lev Navrozov: NewsMax.com columnist and journalist. One of the most brilliant minds in the world, according to many distinguished Westerners and Russians. Published over 1,000 columns and articles on the destiny of civilization, world culture, foreign policy, strategy, defense, and intelligence work since his emigration from Russia in 1972. Winner of the Albert Einstein Prize for outstanding intellectual achievements. Author of The Education of Lev Navrozov (Harper & Row, 1975), compared by the reviewers to Mark Twain, Proust, Orwell, Voltaire, and Dostoyevsky. More than twenty of his articles are in the United States Congressional Record."<br><br>Saul Bellow, possibly the greatest American novelist, a Nobel Prize laureate, a scholar, and a thinker, has defined the importance of his work in a letter to Lev as follows: <br><br> "I doubt whether you (or anyone) can restore the diminishing sight of what you call “the sightless and hence doomed” West. What one can attempt is to describe the condition in its fundamentals. This indispensable description if it is to be uncontestable will take more strength than any normal man has, for what we have is a probably a fatal case of political poisoning, and the distortions and hallucinations it causes may be impossible to dispel. You must have more strength than any normal man has, or you would not have set yourself such a task."<br><br>If you would like to read my essay/analysis on this man and his work, then please check out my blog @ http://deltasix9r.blogspot.com/<br><br>Peace<br><br>fooser

[Adam]

I thought your essay was very informative, and I would like to see either of your anonymous "worthless trash" critics try to write something better. Their replies haven't really given us a good preview of their writing skills. Spelling? What's spelling?

[kristie o'sullivan]

I am curently studying Animal Farm in english and i found your assay very interesting. I myself, found it hard to get into the book and understand it. reading your assy i could better understand it and got a few good ideas. thank you for sharing your information with every one, and i hope you feel proud for what you wrote because you should.<br><br> thank you again so much and good luck with what ever you choose to do with the rest of your life.

[laine]

im just a 13 yrs old kid//like ur essay..was forced by e teacher to read this book and find out more on joseph stalin..didnt like it as it sound complicating but ur essay is indeed a nice and traffic one!at least now i know who represents who in the book... thanks loads gd job

[macca]

this is truly stunning piece of work

[Giovanna]

I had to read this book for my English class over the summer and write an essay about it. I had previously read the book; it is and incredible book and makes it very simple for people to see how corrupt most governing systems are. So easy to the point that I sometimes tell parts of the story to my littles sister as a bedtime story. <br><br> Here is my essay if anyone cares to read it. Please do not just copy it and say you wrote it; I worked extemely hard to find all the information, and I would like some credit. <br><br> George Orwell gives a very vivid and accurate account of what happened in Russia after Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate in his book Animal Farm. Being an allegory, most of the characters and events have a parallel in Stalinist Russia. Minor characters in the story also symbolize things that are very relevant to the history of Russia. <br> Mr. Jones is the embodiment of the old government, of the monarchy where the autocrat takes all without giving anything; he is the last of the Czars. Czar Nicholas II lost control because the spark of reformation had been ignited by the publishing of Karl Marx’s book Communist Manifesto, which led to the successful February Revolution. Farmer Jones lost control of the animals after they got the spirit of revolution from Old Major’s speech and revolted. The outcome was a successful Rebellion. Since Old Major was dead and Jones was gone, the Animals, ironically, needed a leader to be in charge of the new Animal Farm, where they were all free and equal. <br>Pigs were considered the most intelligent, and out of them Snowball and Napoleon were the most prominent. Trotsky and Stalin fought for power, but Stalin eventually eliminated Trotsky, having him expelled from Russia. In the same manner, Snowball and Napoleon constantly disputed; Napoleon was already hungry for power and soon after the Rebellion, had plans of getting rid of his opponent. In the midst of an eloquent speech about the plans for making a windmill by Snowball, Napoleon directed the dogs he had raised to attack Snowball. Thus, he had eliminated his only rival and was free to control the farm. <br> Upon the expulsion of Snowball, Napoleon’s first decision was to eradicate the Sunday Morning Meetings. “They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. In the future all questions relating to the work of the farm would be settled by a special committee of the pigs and, presided over by himself.” (Orwell, 68) This is also very much like the Command Economy that Stalin had made, in which the government made all economic decisions. His next decision was to build the windmill that he had been so opposed to when proposed by Snowball. Trotsky had proposed a Five-Year Plan for the industrialization of Russia, and Stalin had opposed to it. After Trotsky was gone, Stalin had no economic ideas of his own; “In a word, he put into practice the dictatorship of industry for which Trotsky had called five years earlier.” (Ovseyenko, 70) The windmills, hence, represent the Five-Year plans, or Russia’s Industry.<br> As Trotsky gained more power, it was imperative for him to eliminate any who might challenge it, and also to keep a bodyguard around him to prevent any harm from coming to him; maintaining this in mind, he assigned a secret police to assassinate people who were against him and to keep him safe. This special army was most known as KGB or the Committee of State Security. Napoleon needed his personal army also, and this was the dogs’ actual purpose. “When they had finished confessing their crimes, the dogs promptly tore their throats out....” (Orwell, 93) Napoleon then asked if anyone else had any crimes to confess, and they were executed immediately.<br> Pinchfield, one of the farms bordering Animal Farm, symbolizes Germany. Stalin made the Non- Aggressive Pact with Hitler, to keep Germany from attacking Russia during World War II. Germany attacked Russia, nonetheless, breaking the pact and forcing Russia join the Allies. Napoleon had made a deal to sell a pile of lumber to Fredrick of Pinchfield; Napoleon had trusted him, but in turn Fredrick had given him fake bank notes and was coming to attack them. He, like Hitler, had ignored the deal, swindled Napoleon and attacked Animal Farm. <br> “You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements,” stated Norman Douglass. Squealer the pig was very persuasive and “.... could turn black into white.” (Orwell 36) He communicated to all the other animals what Napoleon had said, and always convinced them that it was right. He is a symbol of Stalin’s propaganda machine, the Pravda. The people had no other source of information, and Stalin needed to manipulate the media. He took control of the publication, making it work for his needs, so the people were oblivious to what was actually occurring. <br> The proletariats were the easiest to convince and were most attached to Stalin, being that the system would benefit them most and were not educated. Examples of this are the horses Boxer and Clover. They were faithful, hard working and never doubted the system. We can also see how important the unskilled labor class was in order for everything to work well also. “Nothing could have been achieved without Boxer, whose strength was equal to that of all the rest of the animals put together.” (Orwell 74) Mollie, on the other hand, represents the middle class workers, who got paid more. They were unsatisfied that they were getting paid less and they wanted their “sugar.” Muriel represents the minority of the working educated class; they could make decisions and think for themselves. Muriel was not spirited enough to incite another rebellion against the corruption that was happening. <br> At the end of the book, the pigs become indiscernible from the humans. Orwell has made humans represent the people who exploit those weaker than them. The pigs had become corrupters of their own. “ Somehow it seemed as thought the farm had grown richer without making the animals richer themselves- except, of course, for the pigs and he dogs.” (Orwell 129) Manor Farm is the tyrannical nation; Animal Farm is the Communist or Animalist one. When Napoleon states that the name if the farm is once again Manor, he is affirmatively stating that the totalitarianism is installed once more.<br> Animal Farm ends with the animals being exploited by the pigs; it is a dark ending, but it is brutally true. The idea of Socialism, or Animalism, is good as ideal. Human nature will not allow the leaders, who are always necessary, to be fair. Orwell did an excellent job of weaving the history of Stalinist Russia with the fairy idea of speaking and thinking animals. <br>

[Heyyy!]

Ive just been reading George Orwells 'Animal Farm' in my tenth grade english class, now we have finally finished reading the novel we have been given an essay. Which i am having some difficulty with. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
'Explore How George Orwell challenges his society through his writing'

Thanks.:yawnb:

[Heyyy!]

Ive just been reading George Orwells 'Animal Farm' in my tenth grade english class, now we have finally finished reading the novel we have been given an essay. Which i am having some difficulty with. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
'Explore How George Orwell challenges his society through his writing'

Thanks!

[bazarov]

I see very interesting how did he manage to predict all those happenings, especially in 1984, so i suggest you to read 1984 also, you'll understand it even more.

[Thinkerr]

He challenges his Society to take a stand against Stalin's form of corrupt Communism. He is not a Communist, he is a Socialist. There is a difference.

[zhouuu]

i've just finished reading animal farm, and have found some of the answers to my questions on this forum but i am still wondering why Orwell chose pigs to be the intelligent ones of the farm because generally, pigs are the less smarter of the animals as they just eat and roll in the mud kind of thing.

[The Atheist]

i've just finished reading animal farm, and have found some of the answers to my questions on this forum but i am still wondering why Orwell chose pigs to be the intelligent ones of the farm because generally, pigs are the less smarter of the animals as they just eat and roll in the mud kind of thing.

Actually, you need to brush up on your knowledge of animal behaviour and intelligence. Pigs are smarter than dogs and easily the smartest farm animals, where the competition is poor. The main reason why pigs are seen to roll around in mud is because they are usually kept in tiny, highly unsuitable pens and cages.

[Persona Grata]

He challenges his Society to take a stand against Stalin's form of corrupt Communism. He is not a Communist, he is a Socialist. There is a difference.

Exactly.