Novel Study Essay (Awareness) Project

Humans Have Lot’s of Similarities To Animals

Humans are Animals in many ways. Animals are similar to Humans, but not as much

as the animals in the book Animal Farm, which is written by George Orwell. The

animals on Animal Farm after the farmer Mr. Jones was gone acted like humans in many ways in order to operate the farm. Mr. Jones was gone after the animals rebelled against him, because he was taking over the animals and treated them like slaves exactly like any other farmer would do. Animals are influenced and manipulated by human behavior throughout the book.

In Animal Farm, Animals are influenced by human behavior.

For example, education on how to read, gave the pigs ideas on how they could plan certain things for the farm. The pigs watch Mr. Jones, “for whole days at a time he would lounge in his Windsor chair in the kitchen, reading the newspapers, drinking, and occasionally feeding Moses on crusts of bread soaked in beer” (Pg. 7). This is how the pigs learned how to read, because they saw Mr. Jones read the newspaper everyday. This made Snowball and the pigs very curious so, “the pigs now revealed that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book which had belonged to Mr. Jones’s children and which had been thrown on the rubbish heap” (Pg. 9).

When Old Major was dreaming about a song, “ it is called Beasts of England,” it led the animals to think of a rebellion (Pg. 4). Old Major had a dream about the song Beast’s of England that he remember when he was little, but he only knew the tune. Someone in his memory wanted to start a rebellion that is why that song was in his memory so it was his right to pass on the song and therefore the rebellion had to happen. The animals felt that they were treated like slaves so Old Major said, “man is the only real enemy we have” (Pg. 2). This is the reason the rebellion had to happen, because it would be destroying the human race and that is what they needed for no more humans to take them over.

When the animals wanted to take over the farm. The animals rebelled against Mr. Jones to get the freedom they wanted so they needed to get everyone ready to fight, “those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery” (Pg.  6) The animals are going to fight like humans in order to get what they want like Mr. Jones would do.

An example is Mr. Jones and what he does for the animals, “Mr. Jones feeds us. If he were gone, we should starve to death,” and that influences the animals therefore they could live on their own (Pg. 6). Mr. Jones did everything for the animals by feeding them so they can stay alive to be slaves for him. Mr. Jones always ate food on his own and he never was given food by animals and that is why some of the animals wanted to do their own work and feed themselves.

There are Three Leaderships within the animals. For example, Old Major was the main influence by his speech for taking over the Farm to have freedom. He had issues to tell the animals, “here is a point that must be settled,” that caused the rebellion to happen (Pg. 3). Old Major had something to say that had to be said about man and the problems about humans. Old Major knew the most and came up with a rebellion, so he was the main leader to animals before he died.

Another example is how Snowball believed in Major’s idea and took over when he died. He came up with plans for everything, “let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do” (Pg. 10). Snowball took over as leader and after he made the rebellion happen he made the farm Animal Farm since they kicked Mr. Jones out. Snowball lead and operated the farm and therefore he lead them through the harvest. 

The last example is Napoleon took over, because he felt that snowball betrayed the animals and was turning into Mr. Jones. Napoleon knew he would be a better leader since Snowball was turning evil so he found ways to make the animals think he would be better for them, “no one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal” (Pg. 21).

The Animals on the Animal Farm created human and animal enemies with their neighbors. For example, Mr. Jones tried to take back the farm with a bigger alliance. Mr. Jones came up with a big plan of the reason that he wanted his farm back, “Jones and all his men, with half a dozen others from Foxwood and Pinchfield, had entered the five- barred gate and were coming up the cart-track that led to the farm” (Pg. 16). Mr. Jones became the animal’s enemies, because he came with his men with heavy artillery right to the gate of the farm to attack the animals. This means Mr. Jones will shoot anyone that tries to hurt him in order to conquer the farm back.

When Snowball betrayed them by turning exactly like Mr. Jones, because Napoleon thought Snowball’s ideas were reminding him of Mr. Jones. Napoleon made the animals believe that Snowball betrayed them, so Napoleon could become their leader, “as usual, Snowball and Napoleon were in disagreement” (Pg. 20).   

One more example is Mr. Pilkington from Foxwood Farm blew up the animals windmill with dynamite and came to the farm to try to take it over.  The animals were taking care of the farm like always and all of the sudden, “when they got up again, a huge cloud of black smoke was hanging where the windmill had been” (Pg. 39).  The windmill was gone Mr. Pilkington and his men had a battle trying to kill the Animals to shutdown Animal Farm.

Throughout the book human activity did influence and manipulate the animals. All the animals on Animal Farm do change from man, because without seeing Mr. Jones taking care of the farm and reading newspapers and feeding the animals. The animals would not be able to be like they are in Animal Farm and therefore they would just be like normal animals while being treated like slaves for man. Everything the animals did allowed them to be able to take care of the farm and not able to be taken by man again. They were influenced, because if the animals did not see Mr. Jones do what he did then Animal Farm would not even exist. Animals are a lot like humans, because we are both mammals. Animals and even humans that are poor like to have freedom just like a normal man or woman, they do not always like it if they get treated like slaves or live in a terrible place. They know there is life for them out in the world and really would like to live in happiness just like the animals in Animal Farm.