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Homework Help: English: Books, Novels & Plays: Animal Farm's Old Major
by Emily McPherson
The following is a character review of Old Major from George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The prophet of the Animal Revolution, Old Major, would definitely have
put his hoof in his mouth if he was able to see what his ideology had
degraded. As a spellbinding orator and lawgiver, it was old Major who
put the idea of a rebellion into the heads of the animals with a clever
appeal backed by sincerity. But, his idea to bring about a millennial
and classless society, as he would see, was corrupted by his fellow pigs
in a shift of power.
Old Major, when reflecting back, would have realized that although he
changed the conditions of life with his ideas, his followers- the pigs,
had perverted these ideas to their own advantages and to the enslavement
and oppression of the masses.
I think that Old Major, upon seeing all this, would have rethought
his initial idea and perhaps if he relived his life, would never have
spoken at all.
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