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johnlv94
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with all the animals except the pigs? They are the most intelligent beasts and the closest to humans of any of the animals. This is for a 5 paragraph (3 body) essay and an outline would be nice.
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Why (in Animal Farm) does Orwell (the author) make the reader symathize
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Samwise
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Remember that the book is about the development of Communism in practice. The farm animals represent the oppressed workers, trying to throw out their rulers (the humans) and set up an equitable society without anybody exploiting the others.
The pigs represent the leadership under the new system. They are, as you say, the most intelligent. But they uses their intelligence to become new exploiters of the rest of the animals. In the end, the confidence placed in them by the other animals leads to a situation in which they are, as observed by the visiting humans, worse off than before. They are exploited more cruelly because the ideology of Animalism simply gives the pigs more excuses to take advantage of them.
The pigs are treated less sympathetically because the pigs become exactly what the humans were: the true enemy of the rest of the animals.
Oh, and the dogs raised and trained by Napoleon are not treated sympathetically, either.
The pigs represent the leadership under the new system. They are, as you say, the most intelligent. But they uses their intelligence to become new exploiters of the rest of the animals. In the end, the confidence placed in them by the other animals leads to a situation in which they are, as observed by the visiting humans, worse off than before. They are exploited more cruelly because the ideology of Animalism simply gives the pigs more excuses to take advantage of them.
The pigs are treated less sympathetically because the pigs become exactly what the humans were: the true enemy of the rest of the animals.
Oh, and the dogs raised and trained by Napoleon are not treated sympathetically, either.
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Steve
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You sympathize with the other animals the same as you might with the russian people of that day. The pigs used them for their own gains, and convinced them it was for every ones benefit. And the animals did not oppose them because of either stupidity or fear. This is shown pretty well when the pigs themselves send the horse off to the glue factory. (been awhile since I read this book). Orwell wants you to sympathize with the animals because the book is trying to point out the flaws of the communist system.
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Izabela L
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pigs are dirty, people do not trust them