I recently read the book Animal farm for school, and i noticed that the author, George Orwell, develops the plot and theme of the book using the many literary devises including characterization, Mood, and Allegory.
In Animal Farm two who played big parts in the story were Snowball and Napoleon. Snowball and Napoleon were two pigs on the farm who became automatic leaders of the animals because of their intelligence and ideas for how they would build their new society. But although they both wanted to be leader they couldn't be more different from each other. Snowball was the idealist leader, he was always coming up with ideas to better the lives of the animals, including a windmill that would power farm machinery and provide heating and running water in each animals stall. Napoleon however was more of a shady character . He would rarely voice his ideas, or speak up in meetings, except to disagree with snowballs ideas. Napoleon wanted to have all the power, he drove Snowball out of the farm and became the leader. I think that the author used the characters of Snowball and Napoleon to illustrate two views of human nature. Snowballs character symbolizes that humans have good intentions, and Napoleons character symbolizes that humans are inherently bad, and are easily corrupted.
The mood of the story changes throughout the book. In the beginning of the story the mood is happy, and focuses on the rebellion against humans, and freedom and new beginnings. After hearing the oldest animal on the farm speak of how animals are constantly oppressed and mistreated by humans, the animals rebelled against their owners and drove them out of the farm and took control of it themselves. When the animals first became free they discarded all the cruelty's practiced by humans, and started their new perfect society, were all animals are equal. but as the the story progresses, the pigs, who were in charge of running slowly took the other animals rights away, and brainwashing them into thinking that they were much better of then when humans still owned the farm, when in reality they were being treated much worse.
Another literary device that was used was allegory. Allegory means the symbolism that the author is trying to convey through the characters and plot of the story. I noticed this in animal farm in the references to communist society's. The main similarity i noticed was that the character Napoleon assumes power of animal farm and becomes an all powerful dictator who used propaganda to make him seem like a perfect leader so he could easily control the other animals.
Literary techniques are important in writing because they add details that make the writing more informative and interesting. Literary techniques are also helpful to me, because they help me be more informative in my writing, and have a better understanding of the books i read.
In Animal Farm two who played big parts in the story were Snowball and Napoleon. Snowball and Napoleon were two pigs on the farm who became automatic leaders of the animals because of their intelligence and ideas for how they would build their new society. But although they both wanted to be leader they couldn't be more different from each other. Snowball was the idealist leader, he was always coming up with ideas to better the lives of the animals, including a windmill that would power farm machinery and provide heating and running water in each animals stall. Napoleon however was more of a shady character . He would rarely voice his ideas, or speak up in meetings, except to disagree with snowballs ideas. Napoleon wanted to have all the power, he drove Snowball out of the farm and became the leader. I think that the author used the characters of Snowball and Napoleon to illustrate two views of human nature. Snowballs character symbolizes that humans have good intentions, and Napoleons character symbolizes that humans are inherently bad, and are easily corrupted.
The mood of the story changes throughout the book. In the beginning of the story the mood is happy, and focuses on the rebellion against humans, and freedom and new beginnings. After hearing the oldest animal on the farm speak of how animals are constantly oppressed and mistreated by humans, the animals rebelled against their owners and drove them out of the farm and took control of it themselves. When the animals first became free they discarded all the cruelty's practiced by humans, and started their new perfect society, were all animals are equal. but as the the story progresses, the pigs, who were in charge of running slowly took the other animals rights away, and brainwashing them into thinking that they were much better of then when humans still owned the farm, when in reality they were being treated much worse.
Another literary device that was used was allegory. Allegory means the symbolism that the author is trying to convey through the characters and plot of the story. I noticed this in animal farm in the references to communist society's. The main similarity i noticed was that the character Napoleon assumes power of animal farm and becomes an all powerful dictator who used propaganda to make him seem like a perfect leader so he could easily control the other animals.
Literary techniques are important in writing because they add details that make the writing more informative and interesting. Literary techniques are also helpful to me, because they help me be more informative in my writing, and have a better understanding of the books i read.
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