Revolution in Animal Farm
The revolution of animals was executed just like human revolutions, which happen in daily social activities. The revolution was aimed at fighting for equality and eradicate rebellion, corruption, and freedom among the animals. The Animal Farm was full of social injustices led by Farmer Jones. When they got fed up, they kicked him out of the farm. The revolution was successful at first. The animals achieved their goals; they had less work, acquired equality on education, and received an equal allocation of food. However, the animals were more concentrated on evolution, which made the pigs, Snowball and Napoleon take control and seized power. The change of the “Sixth commandment of Animalism” had a big impact on the revolution system within the farm. The transformation of the law contributed to the failure of the revolution system. The original law stated: “No animal shall kill another animal.” However, the change of the commandment added some words to form the current law, which states that: “No animal shall kill another animal without cause.”
Change of the commandment facilitated killings among animals, which caused further alienation and hostility between animals and hence destroying the unity the animals had formed in the revolution period. Initially, the commandment restricted any killing of animals with or without valid reasons. Thus, the animals were united together in everything which caused the success of the revolution temporarily. However, after the change, it resulted in interference within the living system of the animals. For instance, Napoleon attempted to murder Snowball to access power and become the most powerful to control other animals. Besides, Napoleon also offed false accusations in the meeting, which led to the execution of the ferocious dogs. Napoleon is also involved in murdering Great Purge in Russia after being exiled and arrested in the 1930s (Orwell 56). The brutal murders had prevailed within the farm, which raised concerns as they questioned the cause of the increase of killings and reduction of unity among animals. The idea resulted in greed for power and competition within the farm as they competed to lead and control each other. Hence, Benjamin was requested to recite the sixth commandment, which he confirmed that it had been changed to allow killings with reasonable causes. Hence, it contributed to further killings with false accusations.
Change of the Sixth commandment also contributed to the introduction of political powers, which destroyed the equality which had been formed after the animals chased Jones away from the farm. The success of the revolution was aimed at providing both political, educational, economic, and social equality and to provide all animals with equal facilities. However, the change of the law allowed the powerful animals to mobilize and kill other animals, which seemed a threat to society (Lanigan 1-3). For instance, the hens were forced to sell their eggs to humans. In addition, the hens who confessed to having been supporting Snowball were executed by Napoleon as he had more power as compared to other animals. Therefore, achieving the revolution became challenging as the farm was later filled by greed animals who acted and dressed just like the humans they had chased. The farm was even more worse as compared when ruled by humans as the animals who overtook the power subjected other animals to more work with less food, which mainly depended on the power that each animal had. Hence, changing the law to allow the killing of other animals contributed to the failure of their revolution.
Works Cited
Lanigan, Richard L. “Fabulous Political Semiotic: The Case of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.” Semiotics (2003): 1-3.
Orwell, George, and A. M. Heath. Animal farm and 1984. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003.