Although 'Animal Farm' is written as a fable to what extent could it be looked at as a comment on human behaviour?

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Richard Jefferis

Although ‘Animal Farm’ is written as a fable to what extent could it be looked at as a comment on human behaviour?

Gorge Orwell wrote the story of Animal farm in 1945.  The story is all about the toils of the animals on a farm called “the Manor farm” under the control or the farmer, Mr Jones.  They decide to rebel and kick Mr Jones off the farm and take it over for them selves.  It was a good plan but corruption quickly spread through the pigs and every thing goes down hill fast from then on.  At the end it leaves with the pigs and the humans looking and acting like the same creature.

 

Old major appears only in chapter one but his soul goes marching on.  He is a majestic old boar respected by all.  His speech to the animals leads directly to the great rebellion. He makes them aware of the injustice they suffer and fills them with hope of a better life.  Major is wise and benevolent and wants only to help his fellow animals.  Old major is the thinker of the farm and has spent most of his life lying in my stall just thinking about life.  “I have had much time for thought”

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We first meet napoleon in chapter two as a large,” rather fierce looking Berkshire boar” with a “reputation for getting his own way”.  His silence and depth of character contrast with snowball’s liveliness and endless flow of ideas.  Like most directors he rises to power in two stages.  First he becomes one of a privileged class – the pigs – and then he seizes power from his rivals.  His total corruption is most strikingly shown by the way that the pigs and human beings merge into the same creature. After breaking all the rules of animalism he begins to ...

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