Animal Farm: a Communist Manifesto

George Orwells novel Animal Farm is subtitled a Fairy bal superstary, a label that may make the book seem free and appropriate for children and classroom settings. However, the title is misleading. Animal Farm is a reach of Communist propaganda. It outlines and even encourages the overthrow of the authoritiesn, and explains how to set up and maintain a commie state. It portrays government as corrupt and the overt as duncical and easily manipulated. Orwell himself wavered between being a socialist and an anarchist.Considering communisticic Chinas late(a) increased aggression, and deteriorating relations between them and the United States, the dangers of this novel must be weighed c befully. It is often taught in schools, despite the fact that it promotes un-American and anti-capitalist views. With todays political tension, do we really want our youth unfastened to literature that encourages them to mistrust the government and supports a communist revolution? Animal Farm is indeed communist propaganda. It describes how the animals overthrow the farmer and drive all cosmos from the farm.The animals create a set of laws, designed to eradicate all hints of humanity humanity, of course, represents the capitalist government. The animals direct each other comrade, a clear reference to communism, and subsequently the revolution the animals are described as being happy as they had never conceived it possible to be (Orwell 46). The novel describes much of the procedure of runnel a communist state. It includes the organization of committees, and the indoctrination of the public in the form of the sheep.Snowball, one of the two pigs who leads the animals after the revolution, teaches the sheep to repeat the maxim Four legs good, two legs bad, which, he feels, sums up the laws of their new system completely against humans. Methods of propaganda are too explored. mail carrier pigeons are sent to neighboring farms to deliver heroic tales of the revolution and substitute other farms to Animalism the domino effect in action. Internal propaganda is the responsibility of a pig named wild boar, whose primary function is to convince the animals that the actions taken by the pigs are for their own good.This is a clear description of how to keep a communist regime in power as long as the pubic is convinced that all actions are for their own good, they will go on with anything. The public is constantly told that they are doing better than ever before Squealer always tells the animals that they are producing more food more efficiently than when they were on a lower floor human rule, no matter what the reality of the situation. The novel portrays government in usual in an extremely negative manner, and one that is certainly mean to inspire mistrust and encourage rebellion.The government officials are represented by pigs, and are portray as sneaky and greedy, with only their own outmatch interests at heart. They take the best of the food, a nd live in the farmhouse in luxury. pliant minds could take this to mean that all governments are greedy and corrupt, and again encourages rebellion. The public, too, is visualized in an extremely negative light. The vast majority of the animals, who represent the general public, are not even intelligent enough to learn the alphabet.Most of the public is represented by the sheep, who could get no further than the letter A (Orwell 50). Violence is portrayed as both noble and desirable. In the start-off of the novel, the animals turn on their human keepers and attack them, driving them off the farm. This is portrayed as a noble action, and one to be proud of. It is also promotes violence against the government, and explains that the only way to put a communist regime in place is to eliminate the current government by force.When the humans are control off the farm a second cartridge holder in the novel, this time with even more violence than the first, the animals are jubilant. Th ey are described as having reassembled in the wildest excitement, each recounting his own exploits in the battle at the top of his voice (Orwell 59). This is not a unmixed glorification of violence it is a call for violence against the government, an act that is distinctly unlawful. Advocacy aimed at promoting the forceful overthrow of the government an be punish without violating the first amendment (Choper 139). trust, too, is portrayed as undesirable in Animal Farm. Religion is represented by a raven named Moses who is described as a spy, and a tale-bearer, and who is hated by the other animals because he told tales and did no move (Orwell 37). Moses is later driven off the farm, much as religion was driven from communist countries. Not only is this factor of the book anti-religious, it also explains to readers that for a communist regime to remain in power, religion must be eliminated.Orwell himself alternated between being an anarchist and a socialist are the value of a man with no respect for capitalism or majority rule views that we want taught to our children in schools (Storgaard 5)? Our schools should be teaching children how to be good Americans, not feeding them communist propaganda in the form of fables. Animal Farm is monstrous and inflammatory. It contains instructions for staging a revolution and putting a communist regime in place, and encourages the overthrow of the government. Young minds should not be exposed to this manner of propaganda in school.