Animal Farm: Struggle For Power
This story is the basic story of how a farm goes from bad ownership by humans, to bad ownership by pigs. There is a definite show of communism, the display of one party taking complete control of the land, making all the rules, and making all the decisions, being as biased as possible. The animals run the humans off the farm, after their oldest and wisest pig, Old Major has a dream, describing how man is enemy and is responsible for all the suffering that the animals must endure. Old Major goes on to say that if you remove man, then you remove the problem, and the suffering will end. This would allow all animals to become free and equal. Old Major continues to say that all animals ...
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and when the pigs take over, they change the name back to Manor Farm. The time setting for this story is some point during the 1940’s.
During the story, many characters are introduced. There are Jessie, the brown dog, who is friends with Boxer, a diligently working horse, and Snowball, a small pig exiled from the farm by Napoleon, the black pig, in the quest for power. There are also the other dogs on the farm, who had side things going on with Napoleon, and eventually took away Jesse’s litter from her, so that they may become “guards” to Napoleon and his “empire”. What each thought and did developed the characters. For example, the horse Boxer’s character was developed by the fact that he was such a diligent worker, and trusted everything that the pigs said. In contrast, Napoleon’s character was developed by the fact that he never worked, had no concern for the rest of the animals on the farm, and changed every concept of Animalism to suit his own needs. There was nothing ...
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