Animal Farm Quiz Blog

Conflict theory is a big part of the story, there is conflict throughout the story. The bourgeoisie in the story is Napoleon the pig and the proletariats are the rest of the animals that follow under his ruling. Napoleon takes over right after Old Major dies and makes up the seven commandments. The animals follow the commandments, but then the pigs think that they are the smartest animals and they change the commandments to only benefit themselves. The other animals go along with it but deep down they know that what the pigs are doing are not right. The other animals never say anything because there is a possibility that they could be killed by the dogs that Napoleon trained to be killers. In the end of the book who ends up winning the power struggle? At the end of the book the animals look through the window in the house and they see the pigs playing cards with the farmers. The animals say they couldn't see the difference between the pigs and the farmers. So to me who ended up winning would be the pigs because they are inside playing cards and having a good time and the rest of the animals have to stay outside and work just so they won't get killed. The functionalist theory is  roles people play. For example whatever job you may have the harder the job the more pay you will get. At the beginning of the book Old Major takes matters into his hands because the Farmer Jones is not taking care of the animals properly so he sets up the seven commandments. Ounce Old Major dies the Napoleon takes over and tells all the animals that pigs are smarter and that they will make sure every animal behind them are doing their jobs properly. In my opinion the animals that worked the hardest deserved higher rewards but that was not the case. The animals society by the end of the book did not reach a healthy balance because the pigs were still in control and the rest of the animals that had been working the most were still being treated poorly.


In the story Animal Farm you could put the animals into social class based on power. The pigs would be at the top, dogs, horses, donkey, ect.. The pigs would have the top rank because they are in control of all the animals. The animals at the bottom are the ones that work for the pigs and get nothing in return for their work. The animals in the book are based off of people for example Napoleon is Joseph Stalin, Old Major is Karl Marx, Trotsky is Snowball,  Famer Jones is Hitler. The book shows communism through animals. The farmers show deviance, it is a farmers job to take care of the animals and feed them. In the story though Farmer Jones in particular would rather sleep and drink then take care of his livestock. Another type of deviance is that the Napoleon changes the commandments to benefit only himself.