Sunday, November 24, 2019

What objections do some animals raise to the principles of animalism in Animal Farm?

Most of
the animals on the farm champion the principles of animalism, but the pigs, acting as leaders,
alter some of the principles to suit their own desires and agenda.

One
principle of animalism is "No animal shall sleep in a bed," but after the pigs take
over the farm house and begin to make themselves comfortable, they assert that it's only wrong
for animals to sleep in a bed with sheets. The main concept behind animalism is that all animals
are equal, but the pigs decide shortly after that all animals are equal, but some animals are
more equal than others. Judging by these incidents, it seems that the pigs main objective, which
they would never admit to, is to become like humans while preventing the other animals from
doing the same.

Overall, the pigs contradict and push back against animalism
the most by adding qualifiers to many of the principles and making themselves the exception to
the rules. They use animalism to rise above the other farm animals and the farmers to
gain...

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