The Beast Within: Animality, Power, and the Human Condition in Animal Farm"

Abstract

This study conceptualizes the Animal Farm of George Orwell in metaphorical terms as a great allegory that discusses the relation between animality, and human experience. According to this study, George Orwell uses his animal characters for nothing more than satire; he applies them in a symbolic structure to test how evil can be naturally inherent in human nature plus potentialities of political structures to become perverted. In his novella, Orwell describes an uprising led by animals against human tyranny very ironically falling into the same despotism it meant to overthrow; indeed, eventually more than equally oppressive. He critically analyzes how Napoleon assumes Stalin's dictatorship and Squealer assumes official propaganda whose real function lay in twisting the truth all together with Orwell proving that despotism does survive through characters like Boxer blindly loyal horse and donkey Benjamin all other social strata contributing through fear, indifference or fear.