animal farm connection quiz.

So I finished the book animal’s farm. I'm going to try to attempt to connect Animal farm with some social theories that we have studied during and throughout this class year. Such theories as listed, the conflict theory, and the functionalist theory. In my attempt which I'm sure I'm going to fail epically but here goes it.

Anyways during reading of animal farm it brought an idea to me that I could possibly tie this into the conflict theory, for example during when I was reading there were a lot of conflicts between animals and man, animals and animals fighting each other for control of the farm, how I tie this into the conflict theory you may ask? Well this is how I draw it into the conflict theory.  I tie it into the theory I mentioned above is that conflict theory is pretty self-explanatory if you think about it, because conflict deals with fighting, and fighting deals with the proclaim conflict theory that I’m talking about. Like in the midst of the book after Old Major died, Snowball took over and rose up the farm to better standards than what the actual owner Mr. Jones had left it after the animals took control of the farm. So from then on Snowball and the rest of the animals made a list of rules that had to be followed by the other animals, in which there was this “Pig” that wouldn’t obey the rules that were presented in front of him and that “pigs” name was Napoleon who in fact had had rouge dogs to attack Snowball hints why is stated the point that the story is connected to the conflict theory.

Next I’ll try and connect this story with “the functionalist theory” so after Napoleon had Snowball chased away from the farm, he immediately assumed control of the farm. In doing so he named himself ruler of the farm, and made the pigs part of the royal family and making the rest of the animals on the farm basically slaves to substances and for them to do all the work sometimes working them to hard. Still the pigs ate better, rested better, and were better than the other animals that had now currently been from created equal, to minimize to nothing more than a common “slave” so to speak.   So in speaking of such, how does this attain to the functionalist theory you might well ask? Well here’s how it fits in with that theory.  It fits in because after the pigs  had risen to power of the farm Napoleon started working with humans, in which we know from the guideline rules set by yours truly Snowball, “ Two legs bad, four legs good” which Napoleon had broken many upon many of times to get whatever he wanted from the outside of the farm. So whatever hard work the other animals did it was spent of the easy labored pigs to support their life style.

The next theory I would like to connect this story with is the social class, because the pigs thought themselves as the other animals superior and nothing were above the pigs. The pigs thought they were the most important animal on the farm which in thinking so they spent whatever money they ever received on lavish foods, better living courters than those of the ones that live in the barn, chicken coop, or pen. Which also brings me to the next theory which is social deviance, I believe while reading this that Napoleon had become overzealous with power, and in doing so he would sometimes act ill rationally towards those of whom weren’t pigs, especially when he didn’t get his way he’d either threaten or he’d actually have the dogs attack and sometimes kill the oppose victim.

Another theory that I’m trying to connect in with this story is the reward theory, because after Napoleon had thought he had done something good he would reward himself with sweet jams and jellies. And drink whatever he could get his dirty little snout on. Which was liquor, which when he did not have it he had become extremely angry with everyone until he got some which I also would tie this into functionalist theory.

The very last theory I’d tie this into would be capitalism because napoleon believed that all for one and one for all kind of ruling, even so he ruled with an iron fist to those that lived outside of the pigs standard of social class. It’s no wonder that was over ruled and kicked out of his position of power.