~ Animal Farm ~

Capitalism versus Socialism is the main issue in this story. George Orwell focuses on the qualities portrayed by a leader who practices Socialism in his story ‘Animal Farm’. The socialist cares more for the equality of everyone. It makes every single human the same to share the equal rights and treatment. Whereas, Capitalism emphasizes of one man leadership and does not give room for equality. The rich get richer; the poor get poorer under Capitalism.

Orwell uses symbolism in his story. The animals in the story represent our human society. He shows on how the animals in the farm were initially opposing on Capitalism. They did not want to be used up by their master. The rebelled against him and managed to chase him away with their cooperative. 

Later on, Snowball who was considered as the leader among them was chased away quietly by Napoleon. He was claimed as the new leader. All the animals listened to his commands and worked together. Napoleon always talked on equality and unity. However, he was just another dictator behind the animals like their previous master of the farm. Sadly, the other animals were unaware of his true colour.

Time passed, the commandments in the farm started to change and the animals became confused. Despite that, they did not fought over Napoleon. As a result, Napoleon changed the farm according to his preference. The new commandment was ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than other’. The ‘some’ mentioned refers to his species, the pigs. 

Napoleon was an opportunist. He utilized his friends’ innocence. The reversion of Socialism back into Capitalism is the main matter of this story. It tells us how we are unaware of the political condition in our own territory and how people can be very opportunist. They can use without our realization. This does happen in our daily lives. What is the way to prevent this kind of a situation?