Destruction In George Orwell's Animal Farm

A Catalyst of Destruction
“But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end” (Orwell 6), Old Major predicts at the beginning of Animal Farm, a satire by George Orwell following the basis of the Russian Revolution, foretelling the events that would come about, through the torment of the humans, unless they transferred to the ways of animalism. Yet, what Old Major did not know was that, whether under the rule of humans or not, the end would come from them in the same way it always has. Only this time, their dear leader Napoleon, the satirical parallel of Josef Stalin, is the one doing the slashing, turning their eutopia into nothing more than an alternate version of their previous conditions. Through his deceit, murder, and manipulation, it is …show more content…
Only in Animal Farm, Napoleon doesn’t just take away the power of his followers, but uses his followers to take away power of other leaders, shown when the narrator reveals, “Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more” (Orwell 48). At this point, Napoleon had successfully created an open path, yet also set the future of him depriving the animals of their promised future by Animalism, by chasing the only leader away that held pure, good intentions for the future of the farm, as well as the animals. We later see how this event in itself is one of the areas where Napoleon takes away even the most basic freedoms of the animals of the farm, with the author describing it as, “When they finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess” (Orwell 75). Even with Snowball off of the farm, Napoleon was still willing to take the measure of cutting out the pigs, as well as any other animal associated with him, in order to keep his standings and influence on the