Matt Ziccone
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
i am in yr 9........and i was wondering if my essay about Animal farm was any good. I've read Animal farm about 10 times now and i love the social structure through out the book, and reading the book made me want to find more about Stallin and Trotsky.....and even marx!!!<br><br><br>Dwight Eisenhower once said Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. George Orwell’s animal farm shows many changes in leadership and shows a cycle of leadership from dictatorship to socialism and back to dictatorship. The human’s who control the farm for the start of the novel treat the animals cruelly and with harsh punishments like whips and ropes. Snowball and napoleon’s fight for leadership throughout the first couple of chapters is the campaign, which ultimately ends in a poor leadership controlled by propaganda and bloodshed.<br><br>The humans, in Animal farm are leaders without a clue. “ Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism.” The statement clearly shows that Mr. Jones and his workers were without doubt, unaware of a revolution and the animals’ activities. While the human’s are around it is shown easily that the animals are not fed well enough. It is hard to say if Humans use propaganda and the only real example is Moses and Sugarcandy Mountain. Moses is described as Mr. Jones’ spy and told the animals of a heaven filled of treats of sugar, but they can only get there when they die. The uneducated animals wanted to go to this extravagant food heaven, and they have no hope for life. ‘ Why should we care what happens after we are dead?’ In these early stages of rebellion, Mr. Jones’ workers are not doing what they were supposed to be doing. Instead of tending to the fields and the animals they were out enjoying themselves by hunting animals in the neighboring forests. This lack of attention to the animals, which in human circumstances are the people, causes uproar that then leads to the take over of Animals in animals farm. <br>At the beginning of a new era there must be change, and the animals of Manor farm, later to be changed to Animal farm, had many. This society was much a people’s society and all the animals decided things together as one. They held meetings and established the foundations of there society, the seven commandments;<br>1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. <br>2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. <br>3. No animal shall wear clothes.<br>4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. <br>5. No animal shall drink alcohol. <br>6. No animal shall kill any other animal.<br>7. All animals are equal.<br>These foundations, or rules were made to set the rules straight out, that the society they had created was to be fair. The leadership of society at this time is mainly by Snowball, but the reader is soon aware of Napoleons dream’s after Napoleon manipulates the cows so he could have the milk he wanted.<br><br> During this time, a government starts to show and this government is the pigs. While the animals are plowing the fields and making the food, the pigs supervise and do as much ‘hands on’ activities around the farm. Two distinct leaders start to show their dreams and these are Napoleon and Snowball. Snowball is acting as the leader in the early ages of the new ‘Animal Farm’. But Napoleon is still there and decisions are being made as a one. Slowly Propaganda is sneaking in and Squealer shows that the pigs are the leaders after his lies about the Apples and the Milk. The Commandment of equality had already been dismissed, although the other animals, didn’t know it. And as Snowballs’ power was growing stronger and stronger, yet he failed to see the dark plans that Napoleon had ready for him. His blindness leads to his banishment from Animal farm and the change of leadership.<br><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.” Immediately the conditions of Animal farm are not controlled by the animals but by Napoleon. The Animals are living in fear of Napoleons dogs and the pigs start to change the Commandments. When the commandments were rewritten it looked something like this:<br><br>1. Four legs good, two legs better<br>2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend; even though this doesn’t change the pigs no longer apply to it, and the attacks by the dogs on Snowball and Boxer show that this rule is no longer applied<br>3. No animal shall wear clothes; this rule is still written the same but like commandment two, it is no longer followed and the pigs are all wearing clothes. <br>4. No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.<br>5. No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.<br>6. No animal shall kill another animal without cause<br>7. All animals are equal and some are more equal than others.<br><br>Towards the end of the novel, the Animals who are under educated are still unaware that the conditions that they live in now, are the same as they were before the revolution. And as the last two sentences say “No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” <br><br> The cycle of leadership styles is so obvious to the reader yet the people of Russia, who were being lied to during the hard times of Stalin’s reign, believed that he was making things better for the country. The animals in “Animal Farm” did not notice because of propaganda, except for Old Benjamin who realized that things were the same. In each circumstance the Animals responded to the leadership the same. Clueless. In modern society it is the same, many people have no understanding of what are leaders do to manipulate, and never will. <br><br> <br>