Exploring The Theme of Facism in Animal Farm,...

Fascism is a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. Fascism also occurs in our literature such as the great pieces Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty-Four by Orwell, Yertle the Turtle by Seuss and Dictator by Kessler. These pieces will now be deeply explored so we can find out what English literature tells us about fascism. Animal Farm is a novella by George Orwell based upon the rise of Stalin and Russian Revolution and references heavily to authoritarianism, fascism and dictatorships although never referring to them directly. Snowball and†¦show more content†¦Snowball hence got chased away from the farm. Yet later Napoleon admits to being for the construction and was only against the construction to get rid of Snowball. This shows that having a dictator means there can not be any contributions or compromises to there decision and will not admit to faltering against the opposition. Snowball from now on uses Snowball much like a scapegoat to blame for the later happenings. Napoleon tries to make Snowball seem evil and corrupt after he left the farm and says he sabotages all the animals plans to make the perfect society. The animals do not believe this at first but are basically forced to accept it when napoleons dogs growl at them. This threat proves Napoleons fascist dictatorship from the fact of the terror he is using to persuade. This is the start of Napoleons amplifying tyranny and with the animals in his clutches he can make them believe anything he wishes including changing the Seven Command ments into his own regulations. Because of the unchangeable commandments now changing Napoleon has reason to make use of the farmhouse instead of leaving it as a museum. The pigs, especially Napoleon, had begun to sleep in beds. The animals remembering the commandments went to check the barn to reveal the commandments different to how they remembered. No animal