Animal Farm Utopia Essay Research Paper Animal

“Napoleon is always right!”, But Clover, who thought she remembered a definite

ruling against beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the

Seven Commandments which were inscribed there. Finding herself unable to read

more than individual letters, she fetched Muriel.

“Muriel,” she said, “read me the fourth commandment. Does it not say

something about never sleeping in a bed?”

With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out.

“It says, ‘No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,’” she announced

finally.(p.69)

Clover did not remember the fourth commandment saying anything about sheets.

The pigs were also seen eating in a kitchen and playing in the drawing-room,

even though Napoleon was against all of this in the beginning he became a big

part of these activities. From this scene some animals are starting to notice

their “Equal and Perfect” world is becoming not so equal any more.

As the years pass by there are more incidents that prove, Napoleon wants

to have more power. Also the “Utopia” idea is going away. Napoleon uses

Snowball to blame for all his problems. When the windmill is first destroyed he

explains:

Comrades,?Do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know who has come in

the night and overthrown our windmill? Snowball!! (p.72)

Napoleon says this when in reality the storm knocked the thin walls down. Also

after this scene Napoleon takes more rations when food is low. Napoleon starts

to drink alcohol and wear clothes near the end. This gets the other animals mad

but very confused:

It was a pig walking on his hind legs. Yes, it was Squealer. A little

awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk in that

position, but with perfect balance,?out came Napoleon himself, majestically

upright,?He carried a whip in his trotter,?all the sheep burst out into a

tremendous bleating of- “Four legs good, two legs better!” “Four legs good, two

legs better!” “Four legs good, two legs better!”

It went on for five minutes without stopping. Benjamin felt a nose nuzzling at

his shoulder. He looked round. It was clover? “My sight is failing,” she said?

For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was

written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment.

It ran: All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.

After all of this confusing the animals are very confused. They just go along

with the scenario but some do not approve. The animals start to see there

“perfect” world disappear.

Orwell shows Old Major ideas of a Utopia vanish by having Napoleon

emerge as a tyrant leader and shows that he is power hungry from the start.

Throughout the story Napoleon starts to change his own regulations so he and the

other pigs can have more comfort. The animals are extremely confused because

Muriel is the only one who can read, so know one can remember the original

Commandments. Napoleon like any tyrant blames his problems on everyone else and

in the end ruins the animal’s ideas of a perfect world completely. This story

teaches people there is no perfect world and somebody always wants more.