Animal Farm The book Animal Farm by George Orwell published in 1945. In the book the author focuses mainly on the effects of communism and how it fails. In the book the animals take control of a farm from humans and create a government and it fails. When people are ignorant of their history, they are unable to read, write, and accept propaganda as truth this can lead to social and political oppression. People are easily misleading their government when they are ignorant of their history. One example from the book “many animals had been born to whom the rebellion was only a dim tradition, passed on by word of mouth and others had been brought who had never heard mention such thing before their arrival.” ( Orwell, pg. 127 ) History was not taught to the following generations by their parents and as a result was the government. The government taught history not truthfully, the result was they accepted it because they didn’t know any better. When people like the text are unable to read and write are more easily manipulated by their government. On pg. 79 in the text it says “ Murial she said …show more content…
In the book Boxer is Napoleon’s follower, whatever Napoleon says to do Boxer does it without question. In the text it states “ “If comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” And from then on he adopted the maxim, “Napoleon is always right,” in addition to his private motto of “I will work harder.” ” in this text it shows that Boxer is loyal to Napoleon. For always being loyal to him, Boxer is told that his reward will be a long retirement, plenty of food, and a warm place to sleep. Because he failed to question the propaganda, he wasn’t able to see his health declining and this would end up hurting his usefulness to the government and the lack of questions led to the end of his life. If Boxer had questioned the propaganda he might of not died like that and would of been able to carry on a longer