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= ﻿﻿﻿ The Cat and The Flaws of Communism =



In the Book Animal Farm, George Orwell implemented the cat as being a con-man, which also could be looked at as a flaw to communism.
==== ﻿ A [|Con-man] is someone who intentionally misleads another person or persons, usually for financial gain.A con man can play off being the 'nice guy", and looks and sounds appealing. ====

The Cat misleads the other animals when she would dissapear during the work hours and reappear during feed time.Even though the cat did no work, like the other animals did, she still got equal treatment,like the other animals. This is shown when Orwell adds:

" And the behavior of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal-times, or in the evenong after work was over, as though nothing had happened. But she always made such excellent excuses, and purred so affectionatly, that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions."(pg.21)





" The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one day sitting ona roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance." The cat was trying to con the birds into comming closer to her and sitting on her paw. She used the docterine of Anamalism to lure the birds in.

==== " The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides."(pg.8) ====
 * Just as a con man would do the Cat wanted the rats to believe that she was all for them being comrades, so she voted yes for both sides trying to convince all the animals that she just wanted friendhsip with the mice.

Additional Quotes:

"Last of all came the cat, who looked round as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's Speech without listening to a word of what he was saying" (pg.5)

References: //How to spot a con artist//. (n.d.). Retrieved from []

//Top// 10 famous con men. (2008). Retrieved from http://listverse.com/2007/08/28/top-10-famous-con-men/ []

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