Fear In Animal Farm
“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.” —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513. This is something a lot of politicians have to decide. In the literary work Animal Farm by George Orwell the animals live under a cruel ruler , Jones a human, after the death old major the animals decided to rebel against Jones and ended driving him out of the farm. The animals faced many hardships but the animals got throughout with the thinking of the pigs. After some time the pigs started switching the commandments and taking more powers than other animals. Then Napoleon wanted to have more power and used the 9 puppies he took to drive out snowball and have power for himself.
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It states “Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?" Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back.” In this quote it shows how Napoleon uses the one thing he knows all animals fear, Jones, to get away with what he did and to break the commandments which he made. In the literary work this kind of fear is used a lot, but it wasn't the only thing he did to strike …show more content…
And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones.When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. They were shaken and miserable. They did not know which was more shocking–the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed.” This statement explains how the finals straw of striking fear into people looks like, the massacre of many living beings and used as examples for the other animals. In this action Napoleon showed his true colors, that he didn't care about the animals and that he taught of them as lower
It states “Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?" Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back.” In this quote it shows how Napoleon uses the one thing he knows all animals fear, Jones, to get away with what he did and to break the commandments which he made. In the literary work this kind of fear is used a lot, but it wasn't the only thing he did to strike …show more content…
And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones.When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. They were shaken and miserable. They did not know which was more shocking–the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed.” This statement explains how the finals straw of striking fear into people looks like, the massacre of many living beings and used as examples for the other animals. In this action Napoleon showed his true colors, that he didn't care about the animals and that he taught of them as lower