Animal Farm: Utopia
The definition of Utopia is "no place." A Utopia is an ideal society in
which the social, political, and economic evils afflicting human kind have been
wiped out. This is an idea displayed in communist governments. In the novel,
Animal Farm, by George Orwell Old Major's ideas of a Utopia are changed because
of Napoleon's bad leadership.
Old Major explains his dreams and ideas to all the animals before he
dies. At his speech all the animals go to hear what Old Major has to say. This
happens on the night that Mr. Jones comes home drunk. Old Major explains his
ideas to all the animals: Man is the only creature that consumes without
producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull
the plow, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the
animals. (p.19) This speech gets all the animals riled up and sends the
toughts of getting rid of man. Old Major then teaches them the song the Beasts
of......
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