Archetypes
Mr. Jones can be described as a villain archetype. Mr. Jones is a farmer at Manor farm with a drinking problem. Mr. Jones also continuously abuses the farm animals. His actions towards the animals depict him as a villain.
Boxer can be considered as an innocent archetype. Boxer can be seen as this archetype because of his trust for Napoleon’s and Squealer’s sayings. This can be seen when he adapts the saying “Napoleon is always right.” He can also be seen as this archetype because he believes that life on the farm will improve if he continues to work harder. In reality his working quality did nothing to improve it, instead it made his life harder as he ages.
Benjamin can be described as a wise archetype. Benjamin represents this archetype because he is the one who remembers perfectly how life was with Mr. Jones and after the rebellion. He acknowledges that life after the rebellion hadn’t improved or gotten any worst, he believes life has stayed the same.
Clover can be characterized as a fool archetype. The reason why she can be seen as this archetype is because after the pigs had violated a commandment, she easily believes their deception. Through their manipulation she believes that they haven’t violated any commandment. This can be proven when she is a shame of herself for not remembering the commandments well.
Napoleon can be considered as a villain archetype too. This can be proven by his actions by breaking all the commandments of Animal Farm. His actions throughout the novel make him slowly adapt to the human way of life. This can be seen when he walks on two legs, drink alcohol, and trades. At the end of the novel Napoleon becomes human. This represents him as a villain and also a human. In the original seven commandments humans are considered to be the enemy, therefore Napoleon becomes an enemy as well.
Snowball can be considered to be a scapegoat archetype. He gets blame for every single casualty even those that are not his fault. In the novel after Snowball is overthrown, he was the one the animals blamed on.
Squealer can be seen as the Trickster archetype. Squealer displayed this by manipulating and by saying how life on Animal farm is improving while in reality it’s not. He uses this saying as an advantage over most of the animals, who don’t remember how life was before the rebellion. He also uses threats against them when they protest with the saying “surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?"
For the next blog I will post the symbols.
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