Animal Farm

Animal Farm Critical Essay

The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell was a very interesting, complex, and informing novel. In the novel, George Orwell uses farm animals to portray people of power and the common people during the Russian Revolution. The novel starts off with a major explanation of all the animals in the farm about how they are being treated unfairly and how they can overthrow their owner, Mr. Jones. They finally revolt against their owner and force him off the farm. Then the animals started to rule over the farm and made their own rules. Originally there were two pigs in charge of Animal Farm, Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon was really greedy and wanted all the power, so through manipulation of the other animals, Snowball was forced to leave the farm. After Napoleon took over, the pigs started disobeying the commandments the pigs, as well as all the other animals, organized and wrote down after their rebellion against Mr. Jones. Soon the pigs changed every law they had set in the beginning, and the pigs start acting like humans. After that Animal Farm slowly starts to crumble and Mr. Jones returns to take control.

Diction, language, and imagery are three important elements in a style analysis. A word choice that is used a lot in the novel is rebellion. Rebellion is a word used instead of a revolution or a war. Another word that is used a lot in the novel is comrade. Comrade means an intimate friend or associate. Comrade is used in that form in the novel; instead of saying that someone was their friend, the animals called him their comrade. "’No, comrades, a thousand times no!’"(p. 28) that quotation was used when one of the animals is expressing to his friends that they will no longer take what man has to offer. Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to something that is not human. The word "enemy" is a personification, because it is a non human word that is given human characteristics. The word enemy is used in the novel to...