War is Peace

In 1984, Oceania is always at war with someone whether it is Eastasia or Eurasia. If they are at war with Eastasia then they have always been at war with Eastasia and never with Eurasia. Similarly, if they are at war with Eurasia then they have always been at war with Eurasia and never with Eastasia. This is what the people have to beleive even though they switch enemies every few years.
The same thing happens in Animal Farm but with the two neighboring famrs instead of neighboring countries. Napoleon is trying to sell a load of timber to the best buyer and Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick are in the running. He is nicer to the one that he thinks will get the timber. He started being freindly to Pilkington and told horrible stories of what Frederick did to his animals. He spread words like "Death to Frederick", but eventually, he sold the timber to Frederick claiming that being nice to Pilkington made Frederick raise his price. He changed the slogan to "Death to Pilkington" and cut off all ties with the farm.
In both situations, the leader changed around enemies because he could and pretended that nothing had changed at all. Everything had always been this way.

Good Intentions or Bad?

Animal Farm and 1984 both have the same type of socialist society in the end. The question is: what was it in the beginning?
In Animal Farm, the animals wanted to get rid of the humans to create a better society for themselves where everyone has enough food to eat and no one works too much. in the end, however, the pigs have all the power, all of the food, and do none of the work. Their society reverts back to the way it was when the humans ruled and in the end there is no difference between pigs and humans.
In 1984, on the other hand, the inner party knew what they were doing from the very beginning. they started the society with promises, but intended to hold all of the power and privileges. They controlled everything intentionally from the beginning.
Either way, everything ended the same, but it was more tragic to see the down fall of Animal Farm, where there was no fall in 1984. it was always intended to be that way.

Animal Farm Soundtrack

Riot by Three Days Grace

You're the Inspiration by Chicago

Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi

Everything Is Alright by Motion City Soundtrack

Mr. Roboto by Styx

Mr. Roboto by Styx

Winston doesn't like the party and the way he has to hide himself from the world to keep himself from disappearing. This is a similar situation to the subject in Mr. Roboto.

I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin,
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM,
So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised,
I'm just a man who needed someone and somewhere to hide,
To keep me alive, just keep me alive,
Somewhere to hide to keep me alive,

 Winston finds someone to let out his emotions with and even share emotional sex with instead of the emotionless passionless kind that the party encouraged. He needs someone to know that he isn't the man that the party and the thought police see, that there is more to him than the straight face of a party member.

I am the modern man, (Secret secret, I've got a secret)
Who hides behind a mask, (Secret secret, I've got a secret)
So no one else can see, (Secret secret, I've got a secret)
My true identity,

 He is hiding behind the mask of a party member because he knows exactly what will get him sent to the Ministry of Love and he is forced to hide his personality and emotions from the party in fear of disappearing.

The time has come at last, (Secret secret, I've got a secret)
To throw away this mask, (Secret secret, I've got a secret)
Now everyone can see, (Secret secret, I've got a secret)
My true identity,

 He lets down his guard in the little room he rented and is himself only to be captured and brought to the Ministry of Love. Even after all of the torture and interrogation, deep down, Winston does not change and realizes who he is and always will be.

Everything is Alright by Motion City Soundtrack

In 1984, Winston realizes that he is very against Big Brother and everything it does. He is tired of keeping up the facade of being mindlessly loyal to the party.

Cause I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes,
Talking with strangers, waiting in line..
I'm through with these pills that make me sit still.
"Are you feeling fine?"
Yes, I feel just fine.

 This is where Winston realizes that he hates everything around him and how he has to suppress all of his real feelings and thoughts. He knows though, that if he ever shows a hint of his true emotions, he will disappear because the thought police are everywhere.

I'm sick of the things I do when I'm nervous
Like cleaning the oven or checking my tires
Or counting the number of tiles in the ceiling..
Head for the hills, the kitchen's on fire!

I used to rely on self-medication,
I guess I still do that from time to time.
But I'm getting better at fighting the future,
"Someday you'll be fine.."
Yes, I'll be just fine.

 Winston is always controlling his emotions and his facial expressions, and he is tired of all of the mundane things he does over and over everyday. He is forced to suppress all of his unhappiness with the party, and he can't have a real conversation with someone because they might be a spy.

Give me a reason (I don't believe a word)
To end this discussion (of anything I've heard)
To break with tradition (they tell me that it's not so hard)
To fold and divide (it's not so hard)
So let's not get carried (away with everything)
Away with the process (from here to in-between)
of elimination (the long goodbye)
I don't want to waste your time.

 Here is where Winston is sitting the Ministry of Love with O'Brien trying to convince him of the party's way of thinking. He changes Winston's mind into what the party wants people to think. O'Brien is asking him questions and trying to get him to answer them correctly, but in his mind, Winston doesn't want to believe it and never truly does.

Tell me that you're alright, (Hi, everything's great)
Yeah everything is alright. (Everything's fine)
Oh please tell me that you're alright, (Hi, everything's great)
Yeah everything is alright.
(Everything's fine) [x4]

O'Brien is finishing his reconstruction of Winston's mind and making sure that his thoughts are what the party wants them to be before sending Winston back out into the world.

You're the Inspiration by Chicago

"You're the Inspiration" by Chicago can relate to Major in Animal Farm. He was the inspiration for the rebellion and all of the animals looked up to him and his wise insite. The pigs even took it a step farther and created Animalism out of his ideals.

Always on my mind
in my heart
in my soul
baby.
You're the meaning in my life
you're the inspiration.
You bring feeling to my life
you're the inspiration.
Wanna have you near me
I wanna have you hear me sayin':
No one needs you more than I need you.

The animals looked up to Major and the visions he spoke of. They saw hope for the future through his speech of a new day without human influences. He "brought feeling to [their] lives" and inspired them to rebel and spread the word for rebellion to other farms (though they were the only successful ones). Eventually, his big talk became a reallity and the animals were free from the cruelty of humans for a while.

Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi

The first winter that the animals are on their own is a tough one. Their rations get cut and they have to live through the cold. After a while, the rations don't get any better and they just keep hoping that things are going to get better.
Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi is about a similar situation. Two people are trying to get through a tough time with little money and nothing else but each other.

She says we've got to hold on to what we've got
It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not
We got each other and that's a lot
For love we'll give it a shot!

Oh, we're half way there
Oh oh, livin' on a prayer
Take my hand, we'll make it I swear
Oh oh, livin' on a prayer

Though Animal Farm was no love story (accept maybe Napoleon's love of power and of himself), there is still a part where the animals have to trust in themselves and the pigs to provide for a better tomorrow. They always saw that even though times were bad, they were no worse than in the time of Mr. Jones and they would soon get better. They were "Livin on a prayer" of better days with more food and less work.

Riot by Three Days Grace

When Major gives his speech and all of the animals break into song with The Beasts of England, the song Riot by Three Days Grace comes to mind. The song, like this part of the book, is about rallying people to start a riot because they feel abused and mistreated.
The verses go along with what Major explains about their treatment on the farm.

If you feel so empty

So used up, so let down

If you feel so angry

So ripped off so stepped on

You're not the only one

Refusing to back down

You're not the only one

So get up

The first verse goes along with Major's arguments that the farmer and his worker shave been slacking on feeding the animals and they have been over working them to exhaustion. He explains that all animals are like this and soon they will all be free from human control.

Let's start a riot, a riot
Let's start a riot
Let's start a riot, a riot
Let's start a riot

This is where he tells the animals that one day all farm animals will rise up together and overthrough the humans and they will all be saved from the whips and mistreatment of the farmers.

Creating their own Web

Webs of lies are messy business. After a while, its hard for one to see what is real and what isn't. That is exactly why Big Brother creates a web for Oceania in 1984. We all know that propoganda is a major part in any society like this, but the shocking part is that the citizens are creating the lies that they have to believe.
In Animal Farm, the animals didn't know anybetter than to believe what they were told, but in 1984, thousands of people make a living off of making lies for the records. This is what Winston does; rewrites the history of Oceania. If something doesn't agree with what the Party is currently preaching, it is sent to someone like Winston who has to rewrite the newspaper article or page in the book or whatever doesn't work for the party. It is mind boggling to think that after fabricating such fiction, the people turn around and believe it to be truth.
When they are listening to the big speach at the Hate Week rally, the speaker is going on and on about how they are at war with Eurasia, but in the middle of his speech, Oceania switches over to being at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. He, of course, continues his speech like nothing ever happened and convinces the crowd that they had never been at war with Eurasia and it was Eastasia that they are angry with. They citizens believe him, act like nothing was every any different, and feel embarassed for having anti-Eurasia signs instead of anti-Eastasia signs. It is unbelievable how the entire crowd would just stop what they are thinking and believe something that completely contradicts it.
I am still unable to find an excuse for the citizens of Oceania to swallow the lies that they wittness first hand and also create themselves. It is even more radiculous that this tactic actually works in controlling the masses and keeping them happy.

They swallow it like grain

In 1984 and Animal Farm, the societies couldn't stay the way they were without propoganda. To put it gentley, the people were told things that weren't quite true, but who wants to put it gentley? The leaders would blatently lie to their people to keep them in line.
The pigs did it constantly when they changed their commandments for their won good. Squealer would always come out to shovel the lies out to the other animals. When they changed the rule where "No Animal Shall Sleep In a Bed With Sheets" and some of the animals where trying to remember if it had always been that way, Squealer would set them straight by saying that this had always been the way and their memories were wrong. How did they just accept that their memories were wrong and what someone else was telling them was true? As Orwell explains many times, some of the animals are not very bright so they would believe anything they were told since the pigs were seen as the smartest animals on the farm. With the pigs being the smartest, all of the other animals just accepted everything they said as absolute truth, even though it was absolute nonsense. With the animals, it is kind of understandable that they trust the pigs so much because they are told that the pigs are superior to all other animals on the farm. They even convince the animals that they need all of the apples and milk to themselves for their mash because they need the nourishment for all of the extra brainpower that they have to do. Of course it is obsurd to think that the pigs need more food than the other animals that slave in the hot sun all day while they sit in cool buildings thinking, but the animals don't know any better and trust the pigs because they are smarter.
In the end, all of the lies add up to an obedient group of citizens that do all of the work while the liers reap all of the benifits. Then they become exactly what they were trying to avoid: unmerciful tyrants.