Animal Farm Book Report Essay, Research Paper
The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell was a very
interesting, complex, and informing novel. In the
novel, George Orwell uses farm animals to portray
people of power and the common people during the
Russian Revolution. The novel starts off with
Major explaining to all the animals in the farm
how they are being treated wrongly and how they
can over throw their owner, Mr. Jones. They
finally gang up on their owner and he leaves the
farm. Then they start their own farm with their
own rules and commandments. Originally the two
people in charge of the “Animal Farm”, which they
titled it, were Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon
was really greedy and wanted all the power to be
his, so he got the animals to turn on Snowball and
make him leave the farm. After Napoleon took over
the pigs started disobeying the commandments that
the pigs, as well as all the other animals,
organized and wrote down at the beginning of their
take over. Soon the pigs have disobeyed, and/or
changed every law there was from the beginning,
and the pigs start acting and looking like humans.
After that “Animal Farm” slowly starts to loose
power and Mr. Jones takes back over. This is a
style analysis of Animal Farm.Diction, language and imagery are three important
elements in a style analysis. A word choice that
is used a lot in the novel is “rebellion”.
Rebellion is a word used instead of a revolution
or a war. Another word that is used a lot in the
novel is “comrade”. Comrade means an intimate
friend or associate. Comrade is used in that form
in the novel, instead of saying that someone was
their friend the animals called him their comrade.
“?No, comrades, a thousand times no!?”(p. 28),
that quote was used when one of the animals is
expressing to his friends that they will no longer
take what man has to offer. Personification is the
attribution of human characteristics to something
that is not human. The word “enemy” is a
personification, because it is a not human word
that is given human characteristics. The word
enemy is used in the novel to represent human
beings or Mr. Jones. Another literary figure of
speech that is used in the novel a lot is analogy.
George Orwell is constantly comparing the
communist and communist state, which is an
analogy. Diction, language, and imagery are a
major part of the literary analysis in Animal
Farm.Tone and attitude are two things that are
important in the style analysis of Animal Farm.
Tone and attitude is what you feel when you read a
novel. The main tones of the novel were
self-importance, apathy, passion, pain, and
unfriendliness. Often times when reading this
novel there is a sad feeling about what is going
on. “?The execution of the traitors this
afternoon was the final act.?”(p. 96), this quote
was said by Squealer and the tone of how it was
said, not to mention the content of the sentence,
were very sad and gave you an evil picture of what
Napoleon was doing. The novel is about the
communistic state that Europe was going through at
the time when this novel was written. The novel
challenges a person to show their feelings towards
communism. I felt angry and was very disappointed
with communism and often hoped that they would
have chosen a different type of government, and
maybe Europe would have done a little bit better.
Another major part of tone and attitude is
personification. There is a lot of
personification in this novel. Almost every
character is a representation of an authority
figure in Europe at that time. For example Boxer
was a representation of the Proletarians during
the communist manifesto. Another major part of
attitude and tone in Animal Farm is the key word
in the novel. “?All men are enemies, all animals
are comrades.?”(p.31), “?Whatever goes upon two
legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs,
or has wings, is a friend.?”(p. 31), “Beasts of
England”(p.96), are all examples of key words and
phrases used to set the tone and attitude in
animal farm. Tone and attitude are very important
in the style analysis of Animal Farm.Another part of a style analysis is the point of
view. The novel, Animal Farm, has an objective
and dramatic point of view. When a novel has an
objective or a dramatic point of view in a way
that the author is the narrator and he tells what
has happened or what was said. An example of a
way that Orwell uses his third person perspective
is, “?No sentimentally, comrade!” cried Snowball,
from whose wounds the blood was still dripping.
?War is war. The only good human being is
dead.?”(p. 59) In that quote the author, George
Orwell, is telling what the animals are saying.
By sating “cried Snowball” you can tell that the
author is telling you about what happened rather
than having the animals tell their novel
themselves. Another characteristic of an
objective or dramatic point of view is that in the
novel you never read about is the author?s
comments, interpretations. Another thing you
don?t read about is what the characters are
thinking, and you never enter the character?s
mind. The point of view is very important in the
style analysis of Animal Farm.A major part of a style analysis is the detail of
the novel. The detail in a style analysis is
information on the novel that involves the history
of what is happening during the time when, which
the novel is written. A quote that George Orwell
said about how he wrote this novel was “Animal
Farm was the first novel in which I tried with
full conscienceness of what I was doing, to fuse
political and artistic purpose into one whole.”.
His novel was written as a satire, or a take off
on communism. The novel was written during the
Russian Revolution. During this time many things
happened. This first was that Zar Nicholas the II
allowed the Russians to get into the war with
Japan. Zar used all the money for war, which they
ended up loosing. Three people that took over
after Zar Nicholas were Lenin, Stalin, and
Trotsky. In 1847 they started the communist
manifesto. Karl Marx started the communist
manifesto and in it he said Burgeons, the middle
class, the Proletarians, the working class, and
the Aristocracy, which was the royalty. Karl also
differentiated communism, socialism, and
capitalism. Capitalism meant the majority working
for the minority. Communism meant the majority
working for the majority and that the government
would control and deliver goods. Socialism meant
that the government controls factories and health
care. Karl Marx objective was to put communism
forth. He also tried to put forth totalarism,
which is where people are dependent are totally
dependent on government and people have no say.
Germany was getting more power, and they started
the First World War. In England the church was in
power, not the isolationists, and they had the
best Navy. In America, the country was growing and
was participating in both wars, including the
Spanish/American war. These were all the things
that were going on during the time period in which
Animal Farm was written.Another part of a style analysis is
characterization. In the novel all the characters
were portrayed as animals instead of the people
whom George Orwell represented them as. The first
character you hear about in the story is Major, he
is supposed to be Karl Marx who was a philosopher
and knew almost everything. Napoleon, a pig in
the story, was supposed to be Stolen, who was
smart, evil, a dictator and killed people he
didn?t like. Snowball was supposed to be Trotsky,
who was a hardworking and kind person. Mr. Jones
was supposed to be Zar Nicholas, who started the
Russian Revolution. Squealer was the gossip
carrier on the farm, he was supposed to represent
the Pravda, which was a Russian newspaper that was
owned by Russia. Boxer was a representation of
the Proletarians, who worked hard and were the
“common man”. Molly was a representation of the
Aristocracy, who was a traitor and always got away
without doing any work. Fox Wood farm was
supposed to be like England in Churchill.
Pinchwill farm was a representation of Hitler in
Germany and how they stole from people. The sheep
were the followers, who couldn?t think for
themselves, and were mindless and loyal. The dogs
were the army and the bodyguards. Moses
represented organized religion during the time of
the Russian Revolution. All the characters and
who they really represent are important in the
style analysis of Animal Farm.Part of a style analysis of Animal Farm is
organization. Animal Farm follows a single line
of action, it goes in chronological order. The
novel never foreshadows, and never has flashbacks.
The paragraphs are often small, and almost always
are smaller than one page long. Often the
paragraphs have anywhere from three to ten
sentences. “Now when squealer described the scene
so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they
did remember it. At any rate, they remembered
that at the critical moment of the battle Snowball
had turned to flee. But Boxer was still a little
uneasy.”(p. 91) is an example of a very short
paragraph in the novel. The fable, Animal Farm
was placed in a farm setting. At the start of the
novel it talks about how the animals want to start
a rebellion against humans, because of the way
they are treated. The climax of the novel is when
the animals have a change of heart and blame
Snowball for everything that has gone wrong in the
rebellion. They, also, kick Snowball out of the
farm and start to let Napoleon take over. Little
did the animals know, but Snowball was the good
guy, and they later realize that when at the end
of the novel they turn into humans due to their
behavior. All these things attribute to the
organization part of the style analysis of Animal
Farm.Part of a style analysis of Animal Farm is the
sentence structure of it. The novel was told in a
simple and straightforward way. The sentences
were often short and lacked detail. The sentences
often included just one subject, verb and object.
“Old Major cleared his throat and began to
sing.”(p. 32) is an example of one of the many
very simple sentences in Animal Farm. The lack of
complexity and description in the sentence?s led
the novel to be boring and often left the reader
wanting more description. Often times in the
novel Orwell would start sentences using but, and,
and so. “But I believe that at the Battle of the
Cowshed he was a good comrade.”(p. 91) is an
example of a sentence in which the word ?but? was
used to start a sentence. Sentence structure is
an important part of the style analysis of Animal
Farm.Irony is a part of the style analysis of Animal
Farm. The definition of irony is a contrast or
contradiction. Irony means a difference between
the writer?s attitude and what is really meant. A
major ironic thing that happened in Animal Farm is
when Boxer is sent to the hospital. After Boxer
had almost worked himself to death he is told that
he is going to go to the hospital and when the van
comes to get him it says “Alfred Simmons, Horse
Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willington. Dealer in
Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels Supplied.”(p. 123) on
the side of it. Even though the horse being sold
for glue is not the irony in the novel, the
contrast between what the animals believe what the
narrator tells us, and what we know to be the
truth is the irony in it. Irony is very important
in the style analysis of Animal Farm.This is a style analysis of Animal Farm. The
title of the book Animal Farm was an excellent
title for the novel. The reason the title was so
good was because, not only did the animals call it
“Animal Farm”, but that?s what it was. It was an
animal farm. Animals ruled it, governed it, and
did everything humans would do, but without the
help from any outside source. The novel was very
good and was very beneficial to learning about the
times of the Russian Revolut