Animal Farm, by George Orwell :: Animal Farm Essays

Animal FarmThe animals (characters) in this movie acted as though they were humans. At the beginning, everything seemed normal, although the animals spoke to one another. Before I knew it, everything got out of distribute and the people shot at the animals. Then, the animals attacked the people. The most depressing part of the whole movie was the fact that the pigs had all the author. The power to run the farm as they chose, the power to make the rules and the power to communicatewith the humans until greed took over and everything got out of hand.In the beginning of the movie, the Pilkingtons drove down the rode, their children were hitting the pigs with slingshots and it appeared to be a normal, okay thing to do. They didnt get in trouble in fact it was apparent that these boys needed some discipline. This family apparently had money and because of their social status, felt it was alright to treat animals and people, that werent of theircaliber, as if they meant nothing to soci ety. There was a great deal of class conflict between the family that lived on the farm, the Jones, and the Pilkingtons. The Jones owed money to the Pilkingtons and they were taunted throughout the movie about it. On the other hand, the animals had personalities of their own and were holding meetings in the bacillus. They would discuss such things as how bad they were being treated by Mr. Jones. He was an alcoholic and drank all the time. He treated the animals poorly and put his drinking and fun before taking care of them. Sometimes they wouldnt get feed for days. Meanwhile, Mr. Jones heard a lot ofnoise going on outside while the animals were having one of their meetings, so he took a shotgun out to the barn and shot into the barn killing the Old Major. Because Old Major was the lead pig and was shot and slaughtered, the other pigs decided it was time for a Revolution. presently after the shooting happened, the pig slaughterer tried to feed Jessie the sheepdog, the raw bones of Old Major. She knows its his bones and she refuses them and decides to walk away redden though she was starving.The pigs were the leaders of all the farm animals and had all the power to make the rules. As time went by, these pigs got more and more greedy and decided they would change the rules to their satisfaction.