In Geroge Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, it explores the importance of education and the power of language and rhetoric. The pigs, by using tricky wording, and abusing the fact that the other animals don’t have a proper education, cause the other animals who are always trusting of the pigs, to believe anything that the pigs desire. This leads to cases of the animals’ memories, and what the pigs claim to be history, clashing with each other, and bubbles of doubt begin to form. The importance of education and power of language and rhetoric are to protect you from being manipulated, not to be reliant on others for information, and to have a better understanding of the world around you.
The importance of education and the power of language and rhetoric
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The animals (excluding the pigs) know so little about… everything, that they have to trust anyone that states how to properly do something, and they assume that it is so. They also don't know enough about the world to know that certain actions have consequences, and those consequences are heavy. One such example is Napoleon, while he may seem like a criminal mastermind, he had made a flaw that practically by itself was Animal Farm’s undoing. Napoleon didn’t know that alcohol was an addictive substance, so when he was offered it by Mr Whymper, he became addicted. It got so bad, that on page 126 the book states, “...and the word went around that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whiskey.” The reader, after more careful reading, can figure out that this money was gained from selling the dying horse, Boxer, off to a glue factory, even though he was responsible for more than half of all progress on the Windmill, which Napoleon seemed obsessed with. Napoleon's addiction got so bad, that he sold his hardest worker, to merely buy alcohol. If Napoleon had known of the dangers of alcohol before ever tasting it, he could have avoided this terrible