Dangers Of Being Uneducated In Animal Farm

George Orwell’s Animal Farm demonstrates the dangers of being uneducated. He uses it to show manipulation and getting overworked. The book shows how the pigs are manipulating and walking over the animals that are uneducated, the animals show how stressful it is. It causes stress to others and makes it to where they overthink about what they’re doing right and wrong. Orwell portrays the dangers of being uneducated through the mistreatment of the farm animals by the highly intelligent and manipulative pigs.

Boxer and Clover show up at the Manor Farm, and when the pigs and other animals see them, they know for a fact that they are uneducated, but very hard workers. Boxer is huge and muscular, but not sure about Clover. Like said in the first

Mollie was part of the higher-class, non-working class. Most of the other animals were part of the lower-class, the working class. When Mollie found out that she was going to have to do things by herself and start working, she left the farm and went to another one. Like said in chapter four, “Obviously they were going to attempt the recapture of the farm.” (Orwell 56). The animals are looking for Mollie, they can’t find her, until later on, in chapter five, “Three days later Mollie disappeared. For some weeks nothing was known of her whereabouts, then the pigeons reported that they had seen her on the other side of Willingdon.” (Orwell 62) Mollie always wants the attention of a human. She doesn’t care what the other animals think about it, she wants something other than what the other animals wanted, and that’s attention from a human. With the animals engaging in trade, disobeying commandments, and sacrificing their eggs and produce for food, there is a lot going on for the animals. Most of the risks they’re taking include knowledge, and skill. Uneducated animals are going to mess things up and get scammed during any trade with anything. If the animals were educated, they would know that they are disobeying the commandments. Orwell tells us in chapter seven, “One Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hends, who had just come in to lay

Squealer and Napoleon both manipulate them into being leaders of the farm. Like said in chapter eight, “It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.” (Orwell 100) Squealer tries to manipulate the animals into thinking that Boxer died and the doctors couldn’t save him, but if the animals were to have been educated then they would’ve been able to read the side of the van. The van read, “ ‘Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingson. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal.’ ” Boxer was marked as “Horse Slaughterer”. The uneducated animals can’t tell whether or not the pigs are going against the commandments for the farm because they can’t read what was taken off and added on to the commandments. They can’t see what is wrong with the farm, well the ones that are uneducated. The last commandment that is written and left on there is, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” (Orwell 133) The uneducated can’t see everything that is going wrong in the farm, so they can’t do anything about it because they don’t know what to