Review Of Animal Farm To Ghana Politics

THE REVIEW OF GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL TO GHANA POLITICS

The Animal Farm is an allegorical fable, and in literature, an allegory is a symbolic story in which characters, objects and descriptions serve as a disguised representation for meanings. The fable is a tale, usually satirical in nature or satirizing humanbeings. Although most often populated with animals, the fable can use men and inanimate objects as characters.

In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the animals on Mr. Jones's farm are fed up with a life of servitude, so therefore they incite someone to rebel and expel their master. Overtime, however, the ideals of the revolution disappear and are eventually thrown away altogether because of the clever devious management of the pigs, who assume their place alongside Man as two-legged ruler who exercise power in a harsh or cruel manner.

The book touches meaningfully the structure of all social and political revolutions, where the fundamental changes in ideals of justice and equality by a group of people associated in a common interest is damaged.

However, we can call to attention to indirectly hint at our present government, the Mill's administration, as it is in many ways akin to the major roles played by the major characters in George Orwell's Animal Farm. The book brings to light the issues of corruption and selfishness of this government due to their actions and inactions thereby bringing about the horror of unbearable hardships to the masses.
President Mills embodies the human condition of being weak and delicate of any mutiny, and George Orwell believed that although socialism is good as an ideal, it can never be successfully adopted due to the uncontrollable sins of human nature. President Mills, at the moment is overcome by greed and power-hungry subordinates, as now he sets principles that apply differently to a group than to another.
In that, the chief villain and the central character in the Animal Farm, Napoleon is an obvious metaphor for President John Evans Atta Mills.

Squealer, in the Animal Farm is an intriguing character who represents the present day propaganda. He is described as a manipulator, and George Orwell narrates, "He could turn black into white." Squealer was akin to the Pravda, the Russian newspaper in the 1930's. In Animal Farm, Squealer, like the newspaper, is the link between Napoleon and the other animals. When Squealer covers the evil intentions of the pigs, the intentions can be carried out with little resistance and without political disarray.

The Squealer is however, characterized by Richard Quashigah, propaganda secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The idea to promote or injure a cause is the duty of this man. But one may ask whether this cause is always meant in a positive way. The propagandist in question, Richard Quashigah is trying his best to justify the deliberately masterminded payment of GHC 58 million to Alfred Woyome. Instead of relating his views in support of, or against Alfred Woyome's attainment of swindling Ghana, he rather expressed his doubt about the integrity of Nana Akuffo Addo and Kennedy Agyapon.
Well, whether Richard Quashigah's form of communication is aimed at influencing the public positively or negatively, i leave it to my cherished readers to judge.

To mention without discussing at length, Kobby Acheampong, the Deputy Interior Minister signifies that type of leader who is more interested in satisfying his greed and lust for power. As Lord Acton wrote: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." He, Kobby Acheampong exhibited gross arrogance of power by asking the policemen who arrested him for driving recklessly over the established speed limit, "do you know who i am?" and even went on to call them "stupid." Yet he escapes punishment for driving over the established speed limit. Clearly, the rule of law has been undermined, as this classic incident tells us that President Mills's government is above the law.

The Animal Farm brings to light the enthuastic attitudes of some political strutures and personalities in Ghana who enjoy the luxury of attaining power to the neglect of the masses making it seem to other countries that Ghana is a better place to be.

In conclusion, so long as the society cannot remember the past because it is being continually altered, they will have no control over the present and hence the future.