Animal Farm

Robin Naiditch

English 300

Prof. A. Lee

Consumes River College

2-11-09

Response #1

Animal Farm by George Orwell

In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the author uses a story about farm animals to describe

deferent political systems in an analytical way. The story opens with a farm of animals living in

a dictatorship lifestyle under the rule of the farm owner Mr. Jones and human masters in general.

Then, this fun animated story shifts quickly into a rebellion led by at first by a boar named Old

Major. This rebellion represents communism. For a short time the animals lived in a

democracy life where all of the animals enjoyed the same things and no animal was above

another. They all had the same opportunities and they could eat the same and work the same and be the same. But, this lifestyle soon begins to end at the conclusion of the 3rd paragraph. These animals represented life in a real world where humans were the enemies and their main focus was to overthrow humans and live without a dictatorship and form a system of life on their own.

The animals in the farm lived in a dictatorship rule under the owner of the farm and their

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human masters. They are given very little to eat and spend all their lives working for their

masters. These poor animals own nothing of their own. They most do whatever their leaders tell

them to do and have no say in their lives at all (Orwell, 29). Their brand new babies are taken away from them usually at birth. An example of this would be the hens how that their are removed for sale and not very many of them even have a chance to hatch (29). Animal will not have a chance to live their entire lives. When they grow to a certain age they will be taken and killed so that their bodies can be sold for food. Even the horses will be taken to be killed before they die and their bodies will be boiled and eaten (30). These animals are not happy about...