Orwell wrote that… "Good prose is like a window pane". He aimed to write in clear, uncluttered prose so that people could see through systems and rhetoric to the truth that he was writing. How successful is he in achieving this aim in Animal Farm?

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Topic: Orwell wrote that… “Good prose is like a window pane”. He aimed to write in clear, uncluttered prose so that people could see through systems and rhetoric to the truth that he was writing. How successful is he in achieving this aim in Animal Farm? Support your answer with examples from the novel.

Good prose is like a window pane

Hyekang Roh (10E)

‘Good prose is like a window pane’. This was George Orwell’s main principle. George Orwell, the author of ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’, aimed to write in clear uncluttered prose so that people could see through systems and rhetoric to the truth that he was writing. He thought that the conventional rules for writing to create imaginations were very unnecessary. Delivering the main theme to the readers was more important for him. It is the purpose of this essay to show that he has achieved this aim very well, especially in his novel ‘Animal Farm’, which brought him to fame.

        The theme of ‘Animal Farm’ is not difficult to understand. Orwell intended to criticize the communist regime he saw sweeping through Russia and spreading to Europe and even the United States. Though he agreed with many Marxist principles, Orwell was unable to accept the communist interpretation of socialism because he saw many similarities between the communist governments and the previous czarist regimes in old Russia. Communism, he thought, was inherently hypocritical.

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In his self-proclaimed ‘fairy-story’, Orwell uses his allegorical farm to symbolize the communist system. Though the original intention of overthrowing Mr. Jones (who represents the Czars), is not inherently evil in itself, Napoleon’s subsequent adoption of nearly all of Mr. Jones’ principles and harsh mistreatment of the animals proves to the reader that indeed communism is not equality, but just another form of inequality. The pigs and dogs take most of the power for themselves, thinking that they are the best administrators of government. Eventually the power corrupts them, and they turn on their fellow animals, eliminating competitors through propaganda ...

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