Appearance Vs reality Animal Farm book PDF

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Appearance Vs reality Animal Farm book on how society is pottery to all...

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Orwell revisits the theme of appearance versus reality through Animal Farm. Most broadly, the animals' revolution is undertaken in order to achieve freedom and equality, and while it initially appears that they have accomplished this, there are many underlying inequalities and many ways in which they are less free than they imagine. The pigs claim an inordinate amount of resources (as in the apples and milk in Chapter Three) and justify their actions by pointing out that they are the "brains" of Animal Farm. This pattern continues throughout the book, culminating with the alteration of the Seven Commandments to read: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. Beyond this, Orwell uses Squealer to show how those in power can manipulate appearances to maintain and increase their control over society. Squealer is constantly framing Napoleon's clearly self-serving actions as being in the interest of all the animals. In addition, through his rhetoric, he creates a new reality in which Snowball, recast as a traitor, is constantly threatening the very existence of Animal Farm: "Comrades!” cried Squealer, making little nervous skips, “a most terrible thing has been discovered. Snowball has sold himself to Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, who is even now plotting to attack us and take our farm away from us!...We had thought that Snowball’s rebellion was caused simply by his vanity and ambition. But we were wrong, comrades...Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start! He was Jones’s secret agent all the time." Squealer goes on to reinvent Snowball's role in the Battle of the Cowshed, claiming first that he had acted in a cowardly way, and then even that he had fought on the side of the humans. The animals, while very confused, accept this, having become so confused about what is appearance and what is reality that they can no longer remember events that they have witnessed. It is not just that things are not what they seem on the farm. It is that the pigs are able to skillfully manipulate words in order to create a new reality, one which gives them more power over the rest of the animals....