The main themes of Animal Farm - I temi principali di Animal Farm, Sintesi del corso di Inglese

Scarica The main themes of Animal Farm - I temi principali di Animal Farm e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The main themes of Animal Farm are: - power: the central theme. The all story is based on this topic and on how a person can change with the power in her hands: at the beginning the revolution starts to contrast the power of men, but at the end the pigs became like them; - corruption: in fact, the pigs use their position of leadership to exploit other animals and the ideals of the revolution are just tools to make the animals do what they want. In addition, also if some animals notice the corruption, they don't say anything and this, fuels the power of the pigs; - destruction of common values: little by little the ideals that lead the revolution are forgotten and the Commandments are changed or deleted. At the end only one remains: “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. This shows perfectly how the ideals of equality, freedom and unity have been broken; - satire: used by Orwell to show the political ideology and the misuse of power in communistic society, writing a sort of fable in which the animals represent important political figures; - slavery: the condition in which the animals are both at the beginning when the men have the power and at the end when pigs get more and more power. They start the revolution to be free, but they end up just changing their leader. They are obliged to work hard, the food they have is less and less and they are psychologically manipulated; - language as a form of power: that shows how propaganda can control people. Napoleon gets the power and he handles it to his own interest hiding it behind the convincing words of Squealer. Being able to convince the audience in words is often more successful than having better ideas and plans but not being able to express them correctly; - totalitarianism: the revolution starts with solid ideals of freedom and equality that are soon replaced by the tyranny of Napoleon. After the men are kicked out, animals are happy and hopeful, but at the end, they can’t see any positive aspects in their lives; - class warfare: the different kinds of animals have different roles in the story and they are not all equal. Pigs are the leaders, sheeps are the group of people easily convinced to do whatever the leader wants, the dogs are those who have to defend the pigs,...