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  • Essay / Betraying Human Nature in George Orwell's Animal Farm

    In George Orwell's famous allegorical novel about the evils and inhumanities that are intertwined in totalitarian states and their methods and government officials called Animal Farm, it does more than just express the animals' torment and fear. The Russian people endured the reign of Joseph Stalin. he reveals the painful truth about the ever-present quality of fragility and betrayal among the human race, societal structures and individual values ​​through symbolic characters, events and even the reader's inner thought as he analyzes the complexity in constant evolution that is Animal. farm. An example of Orwell's exposure of this human trait of mutiny is in the old major's speech in the barn, he does it in a way that one would not immediately see as an act of treason. meaning to lead to this revelation of a harsh human truth. The old major shows the basis of treason in his desire to overthrow a leader who allowed him to live with his own hands, shelter and means of work. He resented the hand that fed him in his role as superior when in fact he was given the most luxury of all animals, a life well lived, wisdom, respect and an inheritance among all other farm animals. This shows how the root of human betrayal is ingratitude and taking for granted everything you have been given, but in your greed you see their actions as injustice and thus justify the actions of betrayal due to your resentment towards their class, their possessions, or even their way of life. , it also shows that humans can abandon and malign the institutions, influential people, and places that shaped who they have become and instead of being kind and loyal, betray them for their own personal gain or ... middle of paper ... especially by giving up your moral values ​​out of fear and allowing your fear to give way to suffering not only for yourself, but also for those you care for . The final act of betrayal was that of the pigs as they transformed into humans, they allowed themselves to become everything they hated, thus betraying their own values ​​and morals for material luxury and total control, showing that we, as people, often enable our pursuit of material. things go against everything we believe in, everything we love, and everything we could have been if we hadn't succumbed to the scourge of betrayal. In conclusion, Orwell's novel not only taught you lessons about wrongdoing by governments due to lack of power, but also about sacrificing one's integrity, loved ones and oneself by committing various acts of treason which affect his soul, his body, the lives of many people and the future of all.