he end that they had forgotten. Since the reader see the explanation clearly enough, the reader of this book can say that Orwell is using the oldest ironic trick there is: feigned ignorance. There is also a brutal irony in comparing the state of Animal Farm under Napoleon with the main points of Majors speech. For example, Boxers last sacrifice has been to be slaughtered in order to procure drinking money for the pigs. (Orwell 116) Majors prophetic incitement to Revolution was:And you, Boxer, the very day that you lose those great muscles of yours and lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds. (Orwell 20)This has been fulfilled, ironically, not by Mr. Jones but by the animals that has taken over revolution. Irony is sometimes charged with great intensity in Animal Farm. The contrast between what the animals believe and what the narrator actually tells the readers. Anyone who reads this novel knows the truth fills us with more anger than an open denunciation could have done. Readers can actually enjoy Animal Farm without knowing its an allegory just like readers can enjoy Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travel without realizing that it is a bitter satire and a political allegory. The allegory makes the storyline funny and deeper because many people feel as the socialist Orwell certainly did have a passion for justice stirred into the animals. Orwell pushes his allegorical narrative from past history to future prophecy. The pigs will openly reveal themselves to be identical with man. For instance, the pigs start to walk on their hind legs just as the humans does. (Orwell 121) All the animals on the farm were shocked to see the pigs marching slowly around the yard (Orwell 122). Their animal commandment said, any person that walked on two feet was an enemy (Orwell 33). Napoleon also told them to remember that in the fight against man, we (the animals) must not come to res...
