Understanding Class Struggle in Animal Farm through Marxist Ideology
Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, explores the concept of class struggle through the lens of Marxist ideology. The novel depicts the conflict between the bourgeoisie, represented by characters like Mr. Jones, and the proletariat, symbolized by the other animals on the farm. Through the story of how the animals rebel against human exploitation and establish their own society, Orwell delves into themes of equality, power dynamics, and social change driven by class struggle.
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ANIMAL FARM CLASS STRUGGLE MARX THEORY Fabian Firmansyah Faran 63718008 Karin Maharani 63718015 Muhammad Rifan Fadliansyah 63718016 Rahmelia Prastamawati 63718022
Marxism as an Ideology Marxism itself means the political, economic, and social theories of Karl Marx including the belief that the struggle between social classes is a major force in history and that there should eventually be a society in which there are no classes.
Marxism as an Ideology And somehow this Marxism ideology relate with class struggle which class struggle also called class conflict, a conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests. Ideology from George Orwell s Animal Farm is one of those unique works that has the bewildering power of hiding in its depth the theme of author s other works in fact are worse than the previous atmosphere. This atmosphere, which its chaos has the looking of the life of animals in a farm, takes its members into a complete alienation of ignorance and destruction. Animal not only for its members as animals, but also because of the deficient level of intelligence and understanding of the status quo and their prevalent system. All animals are equal," is an absurd belief.
ANIMAL FARM Animal Farm is one of the novels that main characters are animals. Animal Farm was written by George Orwell. The story takes place in Manor Farm, which is own by Mr. Jones. One day, animals realize that they are exploited by Mr. Jones. They rebel Mr. Jones and take over Manor Farm. Then, they change the farm s name to Animal Farm. After that, Napoleon the pig takes over all the power in the farm which makes him become a leader of the farm.
CLASS STRUGGLE Animal Farm shows lots of equality among each character with different role. George Orwell uses the ideology of Marxist Theory, which is the theory that argue social change in come in come from class struggle in Animal Farm; additionally, class struggle is the conflict between bourgeoisie (capitalist) and proletariat (worker). Mostly proletariat is exploited by bourgeoisie. Therefore, Animal Farm shows class struggle which has Mr. Jones and Napoleon as bourgeoisies and other animals in the farm as animals in the farm as proletariats.
CLASS STRUGGLE IN ANIMAL FARM MR. JONES One of the bourgeoisie in this story this story is Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones is the first character in the novel that exploit other characters. He is one of the farmers in England which always exploits animals. He more likely to have less responsibility. Mr. Jones s habit is getting drunk at the Red Lion bar. Moreover, he is drunk at the beginning of the story forgetting some tasks like shutting the pop-holes before he goes to bed. By doing this, it goes to bed. By doing this, it causes a meeting among animals in the farm.
CLASS STRUGGLE IN ANIMAL FARM MR. JONES Major, the oldest animal in the farm says, No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the pain truth. (chapter1 page3) suggesting that Mr. Jones gives animals very less time for them to rest. Major also makes a point that Mr. Jones only consumes without producing products such as eggs and milk Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs. (chapter1 page3).
CLASS STRUGGLE IN ANIMAL FARM MR. JONES Mr. Jones force animals to work hard in several ways. For instance, there is a harness-room full of tools such as whips, nose-rings, dog-chains and cruel knives used for forcing animals in t and cruel knives used for forcing animals in the Animal Farm (chapter2 page11).
CLASS STRUGGLE IN ANIMAL FARM NAPOLEON The second time of the windmill broken down, it is attacked by human in The Battle of the Cowshed , so the windmill needs to be rebuilt. Nonetheless, this time Napoleon wants to finish building the windmill faster, so Napoleon announces that animals would be working on Sunday afternoon. Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half (chapter6 page34).
CLASS STRUGGLE IN ANIMAL FARM NAPOLEON Napoleon even change the rule of the Animal Farm from No animal shall kill any other animal to No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. (chapter8 page51). Napoleon worry more about his power than justice, Napoleon does not care anymore about those rules in the Animal Farm after he becomes a leader of farm.
CLASS STRUGGLE IN ANIMAL FARM NAPOLEON For Napoleon, he uses the ideas of equality to trick those animals. Squealer, the pig that is comrade of Napoleon, explained that if the animals do not let the pigs keep exploiting them, Mr. Jones would come back. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades (chapter3 page19- 20). The only thing that animals get from Napoleon is being able to make sure that Mr. Jones would not be able to come back. This is exactly like the class struggle that proletariats are the one who get less benefits but work a lot.
CONCLUSION In a nutshell, Animal Farm shows class struggle among Mr. Jones, Napoleon, and other animals. In Addition, Mr. Jones s and Napoleon s actions clearly show exploitation because they both try to overcome other s power. On the other hand, other animals in Animal Farm always get less benefits than both Mr. Jones and Napoleon.
