Ignorance In George Orwell's Animal Farm

“Ignorance is bliss till life bites your head off.” Animal Farm is a novel written by George Orwell. The book uses animals to symbolize the Russian Revolution, presenting ideas such as leaders becoming corrupt, rebellion, and overworking workers. It presents a theme that is believed to be people's ignorance can lead to their oppression. This gets conveyed through the changing of the 7 commandments established early in the novel, the animal's poor memories, and the pigs manipulating them because of their insufficient education.

This illustrates how human nature is corrupt and evil. Animal Farm includes several disturbing instances of the pigs taking advantage of the rest of the animals. The pig’s cruelty grew as the book went on. “fools! fools!

Although the novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, possesses numerous themes, the most crucial theme is how greed can influence an individual’s decisions so greatly that deception of others is common practice. For instance, the readers get an insight of Squealer’s decisions and thoughts throughout the book, “‘It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back’…

Benjamin, who knew what was happening, refused to speak up. If the other animals were not so dim-witted and uneducated, they may have realized that things were no different under Napoleon than they were under Jones. Some animals blindly went along with what the pigs had to say. Boxer

The pigs stealing the apples for them to eat was twisted into a lie that they needed them to perform their best to be able to lead the other animals, so it is for the other animals they eat the apples. The last quote that shows how manipulated all the animals are is, “I will work harder” (Orwell 37). Even the strongest of the animals, Boxer, was even manipulated into thinking he has to work as hard as he possibly can just to please the pigs and make it on the farm. This directly resulted in the power-hoarding behavior of the pigs.

Furthermore, the pigs alter Animalism's precepts to fit their needs and excuse their behavior. Finally, the pigs are unaccountable, living in luxury and employing violence to uphold control. George Orwell's classic "Animal Farm" shows how power corrupts the pigs by allowing them to manipulate language and control information, behave without responsibility, and focus on their self-interest. Napoleon, the principal pig in command, establishes a secret police squad of dogs that terrorizes and punishes any animal who resists him.

Power Corrupts the Mind; Analysis of the characters in George Orwell’s Allegory Animal Farm In the allegory, Animal Farm, George Orwell uses farm animals to symbolize important leaders during the Russian Revolution. At the beginning of the novel, the animals revolt against Mr. Jones, the owner of the farm. Shortly after winning control of the farm, the animals decide that the pigs should be the leaders because they are the most intelligent animals on the farm. Throughout the story, the pigs begin to make decisions without telling the other animals and begin to make changes to the original laws that were established at the end of the revolt against Mr. Jones.

Perhaps the animals thought Napoleon would do the same never doubting him. Napoleon was selfish. He was out to acquire control and power for himself and didn’t care who got hurt as long he was satisfied. Thus there is little doubt that propaganda is a powerful tool that can go undetected for a long time of periods with few of amounts of people that use critical thinking noticing it and daring to. Challenge its lies and manipulation of those in control of power.

Manipulation is the most deceitful way for us to achieve the things we desire the most. Throughout George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, language and the use of persuasive language lead to the accumulation of power. Language and the disappearance of Mr.Jones is where Napoleon dictatorship is made possible. The powerful rhetorical and their smart manipulations skills of language for any situation was what controlled the farm of its entirety. Pigs manipulated the Seven Commandments,Napoleon dictating, and the deceitful lies told by the Pigs were all methods for them to gain more power.

(An Analysis of the Animal Farm) Orwell expresses, “But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty.” (Orwell, 12) Moreover, the labor division in the farm is mismanaged, as the type of work allocated and the reward are decided in a discriminatory manner, with the pigs getting the least exhausting work, yet the highest pay. Meanwhile, the rest of the animals are overworked and underpaid. (An Analysis of the Animal Farm) Orwell says, “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.”

This relates to the theme because, throughout the story, the pigs have been in charge because they have more knowledge than the other animals. They were also really clever and could think of a way around every difficulty the farm experienced. ( Orwell 13) In the middle of the story, some crucial rules were being changed and the animals did not do anything about it. “ … pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds.”

Boxer can also be seen as a leader who encourages the other animals to blindly follow Napoleon. His persistent devotion towards Napoleon and principles of Animalism leads him to only think and live by his maxims “Napoleon is always right”. The fact that he can only think of this slogan reflects his inability to engage in any real thoughts. He is one of those who blindly follow and

Through Old Major’s speech, the readers can see that Orwell foreshadows the animals’ rebellion. Therefore, after Old Major sadly passes away, the pigs begin planning a rebellion. However, the rebellion comes a lot earlier than the animals expect because the men oppress the animals by forgetting to feed them. After many hours that lengthen into the evening, “the animals were still unfed. At last, they could not stand it no longer” (38).

so then the pigs are able to take control over them and get what they want. This makes it so that not all the animals aren 't equal causing this attempted utopia to become a dystopia. This type of corruption will happen all the time and with it comes a better chance for a dystopia instead of a

In Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, the pigs on the farm had a propogandist vantage-point that the farmers, who were taking care of the animals, were an over-controlling government (Orwell―7,8). The eldest pig one day decided that the outcome of the animals’ labors was being deprived of them (8,10). One day, he declared to the other animals that they were equal to the humans and deserved what they had( 11). Soon enough, a plan was devised. Since the animals were so “high and mighty”, they would overthrow their keepers―however, whenever the humans drew near, the animals would cower away(14).