Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Psychology None Provided34 None Provided34 I personally thought animal farm was a really good book. It was a simple, easy to read story. The analysis of this book is pretty easy to figure out. Animal farm represents Communism in Russia and it is just being retold in his book by farm animals. Every part of Joseph Sterling’s rise to power is in this book. The Russian Revolution represents the animals overthrowing Mr. Jones. Old Major (a boar) gathers the animals of the manor farm together for a meeting in the barn. He tells all of them of the dream he had. That all animals lived together in a community with no humans to take control of them. He tells them that they must work towards this paradise and teaches them a song called “Beasts of England” in which his dram was described. When he dies, (3 days later), the two younger pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, make his principles into a philosophy called animalism. One night the animals manage to defeat Mr. Jones (the farm owner) in a battle and ran him off the farm. They rename it Animal Farm and dedicate it themselves to achieving old Majors dream. In particular the great cart horse Boxer devotes himself to the cause, taking “I will work harder” as his maxim and committing his great strength to the prosperity of the farm. At first everything goes well, and there is food for all; Snowball works at teaching the animals to read, and Napoleon takes a group of young puppies to educate them in the principles of Animalism. The animals defeat Mr. Jones’s forces again, in what comes to be known as the Battle of the Cowshed, and erect a monument to the event. As time passes, however, Napoleon and Snowball are increasingly at odds, and struggle for power and influence among the other animals. Snowball concocts a scheme to build a windmill that could be used to generate electricity for the animals, and Napoleon declares himself roundly opposed to it. At the meeting to vote on whether to build the windmill, Snowball gives a passionate speech that seems to have won the day. But Napoleon gives a strange signal and nine attack dogs-the puppies Napoleon has been “educating”-burst in to the barn and attack Snowball, chasing him from the farm. Napoleon becomes the leader of Animal Farm, and declares that there will be no more meetings, from now on, the pigs will make all the decisions in private-for everyone’s best interest. Napoleon changes his mind about the windmill, and the animals, especially Boxer, devote their efforts to completing it. After a storm one night, the windmill is found toppled. Them human farmers in the area declare smugly that the animals made the walls too thin, but Napoleon claims that Snowball returned to the farm to sabotage the windmill. He stages a great purge during which an animal found to be in Snowball’s great conspiracy-meaning any animal who opposes Napoleon’s uncontested leadership-is killed by the dogs. His leadership unquestioned (Boxer makes “Napoleon is always right” his second maxim), Napoleon begins to act more and more like a human being-sleeping in a bed, drinking whisky, and engaging in trade with neighboring farmers. His propagandist, the pig Squealer, justifies every action to the common animals, , convincing them that Napoleon is a great leader-this despite the fact that they are cold, hungry, overworked and miserable. Mr. Frederick, a neighboring farmer, cheats Napoleon in the purchase of tome timber, and then attacks the farm and dynamites the windmill, now rebuilt. After the windmill explodes a pitched battle ensues, during which Boxer is badly wounded. The animals rout the farmers, but Boxer is weakened, and when he falls while working on the windmill not long after the battle the outlook is grim. Napoleon sells his most loyal worker to a glue-maker for whisky money, while claiming to have sent him to a human hospital, where, according to Squealer, he died in peace. Years pass on Animal Farm, and the pigs become more and more like human beings-walking upright, carrying whips, and wearing clothes. Eventually the seven principles of Animalism, known as the Seven Commandments and inscribed on the side of the barn, are replaced with a single principle reading “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL* BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THEN OTHERS” Napoleon entertains Mr. Pilkington., a human farmer, at a dinner, and declares his intent to change the name of Animal Farm back to The Manor Farm. Looking in at the party through the farmhouse window, the common animals are unable to tell who are the pigs and who are the human beings. Bibliography: Word Count: 770
Copyright © 1998-2008 College Term Papers, INC All Rights Reserved. DMCA Notifications and Requests