Marjan Kiyani: Animal Farm

In general, people rebel to obtain freedom, good prospect and
comfortable life. Even though their motto is based on democracy, it is very rare to see their success like the India’s revolution by Gandhi. It is a fact that a successful revolution needs a great soul. The “Animal farm” is similar to the most contemporary revolutions which happened in many countries.

The “Animal farm” is a political story by George Orwell. This story is about a farm whose owner Mr. Jones forced animals to toil with little food. “Old Major” was a wise pig who assembled a meeting to talk about the animals’ rebellion to obtain freedom. Eventually, animals rebelled while they suffered from hunger. The pigs who believed themselves as shrewd and intelligent took the leaderships position. One of them was Snowball who tried to educate the animals. Another one was Napoleon, who always had Squealer as a support. Both leaders always argued. Snowball disagreed with Napoleon about building a windmill, so he left the farm after being chased by Napoleon’s guards. Then Napoleon changed the policies and laws gradually. He changed the seven commandments that were Major’s beliefs of rebellion. He was a dictator in the farm. Animals toiled with less food than Mr Jones’s time, who left the farm after rebellion. Napoleon pretended everything was fine and threatened the animals not to have any complaints. Finally, the animals found themselves betrayed by pigs, and all the original principles changed.

All revolutions are similar because before any revolution, the leaderships make their effort to receive people’s attention. They give them hope to attract their attention. In the “Animal farm”, pigs as the leadership talked about freedom, so the other animals were encouraged to believe them. Moreover, the leaders need people’s vote as an agreement for their decisions. In the story, pigs required the animal’s agreement to be the only group who can make the decisions. In addition, they promise good economical prospects, for example, building some structures to achieve energy and obtain economical aims. In the story, the pigs wanted to build a windmill to help their economic issues. They forced animals to work hard like slaves with less food to save money, while they ate well and had best facilities to make the right decisions for them.

Another similarity among all the rebellions is that after revolution, the leaders change. They just think about the ways to achieve their goals. They select governors by themselves to dominate them. The leadership change to a dictator who may discharge the governors who may oppose them. This taboo may involve people’s benefit, but they do not care about people. Although one may see some leaders who may be concerned about helping people, the dictators prevent them do an action which would cause trouble for them; for instance, in the”Animal farm” Napoleon expels Snowball for helping animals to be knowledgeable. In some case, these dictator leaders fool people. If they think that they can obtain more benefit they may change the democratics laws. In the story, Napoleon wanted to follow some aims, which were against the commandment, so he changed them. Moreover, they force people to accept the situation as it is. Even they threaten people not to protest; as an example, in the story if one of animals complained, he or she faced with napoleon guard.

In conclusion, people rebel to have free speech, free vote, in general democracy, but they should pay its price. They shouldn’t lose their hope and fight for that. They should look at the small hole in the cave’s wall which a small light comes out of. Be hopeful to make the hole bigger and bigger and finally break the cave’s wall.