Imagine you are an animal on the farm - Trace the downfall of animalism and explain why it happened - How responsible do you feel for the failure of Animal farm?

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Imagine you are an animal on the farm. Trace the downfall of animalism and explain why it happened. How responsible do you feel for the failure of Animal farm?

For this essay I am going to be Benjamin and trace the downfall of animalism.         

When Old Major died I knew his plans would go wrong. Well, at first it was going well until the expulsion of Jones. When the pigs learnt to read and write I knew it would go wrong because they could take advantage of the animals and they would never know.

        After the commandments were written they were bound to change, and the last commandment failed when the pigs milked the cows, then Napoleon order the animals to do the harvest while he stole the milk. Napoleon obviously broke the commandments, but all those stupid animals didn’t bother to question him, so why should I save them. Is animalism failing? Well of course it bloody is, but why don’t the stupid animals see it.

        When it came to the harvest all the dumb animals “toiled and sweated” doing the harvest, while the pigs stood around saying “gee-up” as if they owned them. After this it was all right on the farm, except for Napoleon and Snowball who were still arguing over little things.

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        I got asked about what I thought about the rebellion, and all I said was “a donkey's live a long time. None of you have ever seen a dead one.”

        When I got asked to read the commandments, I just took no notice because I already knew that animalism had failed, except for those stupid animals! Plus they finally figured out were the milk went but forgot all about those puppies just taken by Napoleon from Bluebell and Jessie. After that, the pigs easily persuaded the animals that they should eat the apples, how typical if them. With Squealer, ...

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