Animal Farm example essay topic

Animal Farm Book Report The name of the book is Animal Farm, which is written by George Orwell. This book is about a group of animals who dislike the way their being treated. The animals feel that they have had enough and with a motivating speech by their "leader" old major they fight against their human owners and defeat them. They then kick their owners off the farm and attempt to build a new life for themselves. They attempt to build a life opposite of the humans and even ban any animals besides the pigs (the smartest animals) from going inside the farm. Despite all of their efforts to create an animal utopia they eventually follow the path of man.

When the animals are successful in their battle against their owners they come up with some laws to live by, and a philosophy that they call animalism. Animalism is just a set of principals that the animals must abide by to contribute to a better life for themselves. The rules of animalism are painted in white by the pigs on the wall of the barn. The animals all try to memorize these rule by repeating them over and over again to themselves and each other, and almost all of the succeed except for a few of the dumber animals like the horses. After the animals take over the farm there are two pigs who try to seize control of the farm.

One is Napoleon who was not much of a talker. The other was Snowball who came up with all the ideas for committees and came up with the idea for the windmill. He was a better thinker than Napoleon. When all the animals helped kick Mr. Jones off the farm, Snowball led the animals to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody with two biscuits going to each of the dogs. Napoleon on the other hand was very selfish. He stole milk that was meant for everybody and drank it all, and he stole apples.

He doesn't care about the work the animals do, just what would benefit him. For example, Napoleon comes up with the building of the windmill that would supply electricity so they would not have to work as hard. Napoleon was against this because he didn't come up with the idea. When Napoleon sees that Snowball is gaining more power with the idea of the windmill, Napoleon sends his dogs to chase Snowball out of the farm. After Snowball was chased out of the farm, Napoleon gains more power by saying Snowball was a bad person.

He told the animals that Snowball was with Mr. Jones from the starting. He then says that Snowball was the one who ruined the windmill, even though it was his own idea. This kind of thing results in the end of the perfect animal utopia and goes completely against the ideas of animalism. In the end the animals go back to their same old boring lives, and realize that the pigs had become men in a way because of their greed. This kind of bickering causes the animals to take on more human characteristics and is a very good example of human nature. By having the animals in his book act with the characteristics of humans George Orwell is giving us insight into our own world because it is much easier to look from the outside in than it is from the inside out.

The pigs are meant to represent the humans because they are the smartest of the animals (just like humans are the smartest being on earth). This is very apparent in the last two pages of the book (Ch 10 pg. 138-139) "he 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". This excerpt from the book comes out and tell's you the point that Mr. Orwell was trying to make in this book and that was that normal life forms can't handle power because they are corrupted by the greed of themselves or the greed of others an then they abuse their power. This book really was a work of genius because it gets people to think outside the box and look at themselves without even knowing it.