George Orwell's Animal Farm?

Question

I have an assignment in which i need to write a paragraph explaining the irony in one of the scenes of Animal Farm. The question runs as follows...

Consider the scene late in the novel when the pigs are sitting around the table playing cards and acting like humans. In a well-written paragraph, please explain the irony of this scene.

You don't have to write a whole paragraph like I have to, I know how you would LOVE to do that lol, but you don't have to. Just please tell me what you think. Thank you so much!

Answer 1

i like what they said but zach de la rocha from RageAgainstThe Machine says it better in 'Testify' from battle of LA..

who controls the past now, controls the future.  who controls the present now, controls the past.  

and he's yelling that ****.

also, apparently that quote from zach is from george orwell's perennial novel '1984'  internet rules

Answer 2

i remember that.

its ironic, because the pigs wanted to revolt and make everything fair. they used to resent the humans for things like playing cards, but now they are the ones doing it while the other animals resent them. its all about communism/absolute power.

Answer 3

The oppressed became exactly like the oppressor.

Answer 4

Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.

Animal Farm



Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule. But more generally, Animal Farm stands for any human society, be it capitalist, socialist, fascist, or communist. It possesses the internal structure of a nation, with a government (the pigs), a police force or army (the dogs), a working class (the other animals), and state holidays and rituals. Its location amid a number of hostile neighboring farms supports its symbolism as a political entity with diplomatic concerns.



The Barn



The barn at Animal Farm, on whose outside walls the pigs paint the Seven Commandments and, later, their revisions, represents the collective memory of a modern nation. The many scenes in which the ruling-class pigs alter the principles of Animalism and in which the working-class animals puzzle over but accept these changes represent the way an institution in power can revise a community's concept of history to bolster its control. If the working class believes history to lie on the side of their oppressors, they are less likely to question oppressive practices. Moreover, the oppressors, by revising their nation's conception of its origins and development, gain control of the nation's very identity, and the oppressed soon come to depend upon the authorities for their communal sense of self.



The Windmill



The great windmill symbolizes the pigs' manipulation of the other animals for their own gain. Despite the immediacy of the need for food and warmth, the pigs exploit Boxer and the other common animals by making them undertake backbreaking labor to build the windmill, which will ultimately earn the pigs more money and thus increase their power. The pigs' declaration that Snowball is responsible for the windmill's first collapse constitutes psychological manipulation, as it prevents the common animals from doubting the pigs' abilities and unites them against a supposed enemy. The ultimate conversion of the windmill to commercial use is one more sign of the pigs' betrayal of their fellow animals. From an allegorical point of view, the windmill represents the enormous modernization projects undertaken in Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution.