Animal Farm By George Orwell - 890 Words

The question, â€Å"Who is at fault?† is one asked many times throughout history. It can be put into many scenarios, like this one, where it is questioned whether the pigs or the animals are at fault for the dystopian characteristics on Animal Farm. Animal Farm by George Orwell is a political satire of Communist Russia, the pigs acting as the government and the animals acting as the citizens. The pigs pushed the animals into following them using fear, force, and made-up statistics, and also by telling them that if they didn’t do as they say, Jones or Snowball would return. Also, the sheep were manipulated to constantly bleat â€Å"Four legs good, two legs bad!† (Orwell 29) whenever the other animals were in doubt. Finally, the pigs used the faith†¦show more content†¦The animals had no other way to get information, so they believed every word that came out of Squealer’s mouth. Even when the animals noticed that the truck that took Boxer away had t he words, â€Å"Alfred Simmons: Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon† (Orwell 101) on it, Squealer worded his way out of that tricky situation by telling them that the van had previously belonged to a horse slaughterer but now belonged to a vet. Squealer would even tell the animals that if they did not believe and follow what he was telling them, they were traitors. This is one of the reasons why Napoleon’s Show Trials had so many deaths. It was not the animal’s fault for believing Squealer because they had no other source, but in fact Squealer’s, or even all of the pigs fault for not giving them another source to get news from. The phrase, â€Å"Four legs good, two legs bad!† (Orwell 29) is heard many times throughout the novel, and usually is being bleated by the sheep when heard. The expression, once meaning that all animals were good, but humans were not, gradually lost its meaning after it being repeated so many times. Napoleon and t he pigs manipulated the animals by having the sheep repetitively cry out the phrase whenever the animals would doubt the pigs. When Napoleon sicced the dogs upon Snowball, the animals were confused and troubled about what had just happened. But then they began, â€Å"Then the sheep broke out into a tremendous bleating of â€Å"Four legs good, two legs bad!†