American Lit Research Paper

Name: Marco Ortiz

Date: February 24, 2016

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Theme____Corruption____
I plan to show the theme is present in the following character(s) _______Napoleon and Squealer_______
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I think that this critics statement supports my

ideas because it shows that

No Page Orwell's next book, the satirical allegory

"Animal Farm" (1945), took direct aim at Stalins
takeover of the fledgling Soviet Union in the
1920s. Approximately 160 pages long, the book
at first glance looks and reads like a childs fable.
But soon after the animals take control of Manor
Farm from their human owner, espousing high
ideals for a more fair and just life, their leader, a
pig named Napoleon (standing in for Stalin) is
corrupted by power. He drives out his rival
Snowball (as Stalin exiled Trotsky), and
eventually makes a pact with the farmer to again
enslave the animals. Revolutionary
commandments for animal equality are edited to
justify the pigs luxury and comfort at the
expense of the other animals.

The statement literally says that Napoleon is

corrupted by power which is exactly my claim.
Napoleon also drives out Snowball as soon as he
sees that Snowball is a threat and could possibly
try to rebel. The whole reason that Napoleon and
all the animals rebelled against Mr. Jones was to
not be enslaved by a human any longer. It was
written in the Seven Commandments: Whatever
goes upon two legs is an enemy. Well this
statement says that Napoleon actually made a deal
with the farmer to once again enslave the animals.
This was the most corrupt thing Napoleon did.

Pearson

Snodgrass
No Page After wearing himself out with physical
labor and misguided devotion to Napoleon, 12year-old Boxer longs to retire, but the pigs
deceive him and dispatch him to the local
knacker. Against the counterpoint of Squealer
reading a readjustment of harvest figures and
work goals, the faithful horse drums a feeble
tattoo on the walls of the van to summon his
compatriots to action. In Orwell's fable, timing is
all. The cabal grasps firmly its control of the
barnyard. Squealer, the head propagandist,
substitutes rhetoric for truth by falsely reporting
that Boxer died in the hospital and that his last
words confirmed Napoleon as leader.
Fitzpatrick No Page This conclusion implies not that the
Rebellion has been a failure because the animals
are worse off than they would have been under
the rule of Mr. Jones, but that the Rebellion is a
failure because it has completely set aside its own
idealswhich may be seen in the corruption of

This statement talks about the horse Boxer who

was the most loyal and hardworking animal on the
farm. Boxer always worked as hard as he could
and thought that whatever Napoleon said was right.
Napoleon did not appreciate anything that Boxer
did and took advantage of him. Once Boxer died,
Napoleon sold him to a glue factory. Squealer
comes in and begins to tell his lies and tries to get
the animals to believe something that did not
happen. Squealer states that Boxer died in a
hospital and confirmed Napoleon as leader.
Napoleon and Squealer continue to manipulate the
animals and lie to them.
The statement implies that the animals are now
actually in a worse position under Napoleon then
they once were under Mr. Jones. The seven
commandment failed because Napoleon kept
changing them only to meet his needs. Squealer
just took everything and changed up the words to

American Lit Research Paper

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each and every one of Animal Farm's Seven
Commandmentsand landed everyone back
exactly where they started, with the many
suffering abuses in order to support the position
of an elite few.
Robb

No Page Hypocrisies are numerous, for special

privileges for the pigs are decreed and then
justified through Squealer's Doublespeak. And
revisions of the Seven Commandments are
continually made to suit Napoleon's personal
wishes. The final cynical attitude of all tyrannies
is expressed in the ultimate distillation of the
Seven Commandments into one: ``All Animals
are equal, but some animals are more equal than
others.''

make it sound good when it was actually horrible.

The animals were supposed to strive and conquer
once they rebelled against Mr. Jones. Instead,
Napoleon and Squealer lied to the animals and
manipulated all of them. Ultimately, this led to the
major corruption on the farm.
This statement talks about the Seven
commandments and how they changed over time to
suit Napoleon and his wishes. The Seven
Commandments were supposed to be a new way of
life and a guide for the animals lives. Instead they
become a new set of rules that get changed by
Napoleon to satisfy him only. The most impactful
Commandment that was changed was the equality
commandment. All animals were supposed to be
equal but apparently some animals are more equal
than others. The first commandment also gets
changed. Anything that walks upon two legs is
supposed to be an enemy but in the end, the pigs
begin to walk on two legs.