Animal Farm Dystopia
Animal Farm Dystopia Humans are just as bad as animals, or is it the other way around? True equality between societies can never be accomplished because of true human nature leads societies to become dystopias. Animal Farm by George Orwell is the perfect example of a dystopia for three main reasons. One, propaganda is used to control the citizens of the society. Two, a figurehead of concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society. And third, the natural world is banished and distrusted. Coming up first, is propaganda. Propaganda provides biased information to a susceptible public. One example on how it affects the public in Animal Farm is, “It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you what would happen if we pigs fail in our duties? Jones would come back!” Squealer uses fear tactics to scare the animals into thinking that the pigs really do need the apples and milk to survive. And if they don’t get the apples and milk, Jones would come back and make their lives miserable! Not that it is any better than before. Another example from the text is one of Boxer’s favorite phrases. “Napoleon is always right.” This is a major example that is commonly ignored as it just mistaken just to be a motto. First, that phrase comes up commonly throughout the book. Second, Boxer is a celebrity on the farm. He is the most dedicated worker out of all the animals and humans in the entire book! So saying his motto would lead to the other animals believing Boxer. So it would be an example of a testimonial. Along with propaganda, there is another reason why this novel is a dystopia. In each society, there never truly is an equal social class system. There is always one, or a group of leaders that gets special treatment, or is revered by all the residents of the society. In Animal Farm, that leader would be Napoleon. It could be the whole group of pigs, but Napoleon always gets more for doing less. One example of this is, “Then there were lamp oil