Feedback, January 27, 2009

In your own words define, tyranny, injustice and self-determination and then using examples from Animal Farm explain how they all relate to the overthrow of Farmer Jones.



Tyranny, is the rule of a tyrant, or an absolute ruler. Usually unjust, severe, and oppressive. In my opinion, the best example of a tyrant in this book would be Mr. Jones. You can look at it from multiple point of views. On an average scale, hes not a tyrant, but a farmer who owns many animals, but from the animals point of view, he really fits the discription of "tyrant". He doesnt feed them enough, takes their milk, kills them for his own food, etc. This leads to our next word, injustice. Injustice is pretty much what the animals on the farm feel during Mr. Jones's "rule". It pretty much means, bieng unfair. Now self determination, is what the animals seek. It means bieng able to command yourself according to your needs. To be able to "determine" things on your own. I feel that these 3 key ideas intersect greatly. A tyrant, would take up leadership in self-determination, yet his actions might be filled with injustice. The reason he may have taken up rule, might have been because the previous leader could have been unjust before...etc.