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Would Clover’s idea from George Orwell’s Animal Farm be Feasible or a Fiasco? Clover, from Orwell’s Animal Farm, originally believed that the reformed farm would be a perfect world. In her mind, all animals would work peacefully alongside each other to benefit them all. Soon after Napoleon became the sole leader on the farm, his ulterior motives became clear and the originally ‘perfect’ animal farm became the breeding ground for propaganda and suspicion.
The so-called ‘perfect’ world that Clover dreams of could never have been possible in the long term. It would either require a leader who is not lured by the prospect of more power or no leader at all. Clover’s dream could have been a reality for some time, but eventually, something would go wrong. This was shown in Ancient Persia when Darius III was able to unite almost the entire Middle East, he allowed everyone within the empire to do their own thing as long as they paid some taxes. After around 250 years the Greeks got jealous and destroyed the majority of the Persian Empire. If something so perfect is created then there will always be someone mad or jealous of it that may eventually lead to its downfall. In Animal Farm, after the farm is taken over by the animals, people dislike it as shown by this quote: “The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.” This quote shows that people will dislike ideas that they didn’t think of themselves or that they feel threatened by.
Clover’s idea was that all the animals would work together to accomplish things and work in peace alongside their leaders. This would be impossible because even if all the animals worked together, most leaders feel the influence of power and might change their original opinions for ones that benefit themselves more.
In Orwell’s book Animal Farm, Napoleon and Squealer often use Snowball and Mr. Jones as a way of bribing or threatening the rest of the animals to stay in line. Because all the animals remember or have heard about Jones’s tyrannic rule over Manor Farm, they are inclined to believe that nothing could be worse than Jones. This benefits Napoleon’s regime because if any animal doubts his orders, the mere reminder of how things used to be would immediately convince them that it is for the best. This is shown in the book after Napoleon murders many animals for supposedly committing treason and Boxer begins to doubt whether that was a good thing. Squealer reassures him with a simple “You don’t want Jones back do you?” Convincing the animals that Snowball and Jones would have made things worse, makes things seem better than they really are. Though Jones was already known to be dead around the time that this happened, Napoleon kept using him and Snowball as scapegoats to keep up the illusion of an outside threat so no one was suspicious of one within.
An example of real scapegoat used by leaders in the world is Trump making up the concept of fake news. By calling anything he doesn’t agree with fake, he provides himself with a scapegoat that will last through his presidency as proven by the amount of NY Times articles about him. Though this scapegoat is not a person it is certainly an easy thing to point fingers at.
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