Animalism is on the rise!

Have you ever heard the word animalism? To me, I have never heard such word until I was introduced to the story Animal Farm by George Orwell. This story is very much interesting as animals are given chances to be the significant characters to liven up the plot of the story. In my opinion, the animals in the story symbolize the human beings and how they react to certain situations. Human are just like the animals in the story if they act foolishly.

The story Animal Farm is about animals that rebel against their master the farm that they live. The master who is a human being does not treat the animals equally and neglects their needs. Thus, the animals in the farm fight the human beings to take over ruling the farm.  This theory however comes from the senior pig, Major who wants to see justice in the animals’ community.  The animals succeed to eliminate human beings from the farm. The most powerful pigs, Snowball and Napoleon take charge to become the leader for all the animals in the farm. Along the way, greed overpowers Napoleon. Thus, he plans to abolish Snowball from the farm so that he can be the leader. Everything has changed after Napoleon takes over the farm. The Seven Commandments instilled by Snowball are forgotten gradually. The motto ‘Two legs good, four legs bad’ is no longer practiced in the farm. Napoleon has become a dictator and other animals are treated badly. This situation derives dissatisfaction in certain animals. Towards the end of the story, Napoleon greediness has lead to collaboration between human and animals in business and trading. The original objective to get rid of human being is now a history. Lastly, other dissatisfied animals rebel against Napoleon and other human during a meeting.

As a whole, this story brings the issue of leadership and ideology. The dictatorship shown in the story tells us how the leader is always right, like Napoleon and how the community suffers. The ideology like animalism as portrays in the story, socialism, communism and many others do not promise equality as demanded by the community. There will be no justice and equality as long as people do not tolerate each other. Greed is very dangerous as people will do anything to get what they wish without considering others.