Given the right conditions, those events could happen anywhere where a leader becoming overly ambitious, to the point of harming his people for more power.
Every human being is capable of becoming a ruthless, opportunistic being like Napoleon if placed in the right place, at the right time.
D. Context of the Novel
Animal Farm is a novel that was written by George Orwell. It was published in England on 17 August 1945. This novel is an allegory where the
animals play the roles in revolutionaries and overthrow the human owner of Manor Farm, then rename it to Animal Farm. At first it was set up that all animals
are equal, however, class and status disparities soon emerge between the different animal species where the pigs being the greater species. This novel describes how
a society’s ideologies can be manipulated and twisted by those in positions of social and political power. The novel concentrates not only on the corruption of
revolution by its leaders but also illustrate how wickedness in human nature, especially greed, destroys a good society.
Orwell writes this book as a critic of Joseph Stalin of Soviet, a political leader at the time when Animal Farm was written. He uses the main character as
well as the tyrant and villain of Animal Farm, Napoleon as a representation of Joseph Stalin.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter includes four sections, namely subject matter, approaches, data collection, and procedures. The subject matter deals with the major subject of
the study. The approaches concern with the literary approaches that I used to analyze the novel. Data collection deals with the sources that I used in analyzing
the study. Finally, the procedures concern with the steps used in completing the study.
A. Subject Matter
The object of this study is the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. George Orwell was born in India in 1903 and educated from Eton. George
Orwell’s Animal Farm was first published by Harcourt, Inc in New York, United States in 1945. This novel consists of 84 pages with 10 chapters. The novel tells
about the revolution that created by the animals in Mr. Jones’ Manor Farm that fight against the “slavery of animals under human beings” and transform Manor
Farm into Animal Farm. Freed from the “slavery”, the animals build on the slogan that All Animals Are Created Equal. Because of their cleverness, the pigs
Snowball and Napoleon emerge as the leader of the new community that was very prosperous at first and then change to disaster after Napoleon betray Snowball and
become the sole leader of the farm and lead the animals arbitrarily full with his fake words. The climax is the brutal betrayal to the faithful horse Boxer and the
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