Have you ever imagined a world of analphabetism, lack of criticism and a complete ignorance? The consequence of having a world with those ills is the advantage of few people, who can control everyone and everything using the power of their minds. Moreover, the oppression, dictatorships and death are the results in a world where the analphabetism, the lack of criticism and the ignorance are the popular thinking of people. In the British novel animal farm by George Orwell, the ignorance cause the dictatorship of the pig Napoleon. However, the animals in the novel could have avoided the oppression by Napoleon if they would have fought against the ignorance. According to dictionary.com ignorance is “the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning or information” in the novel of Orwell all the animals except the pigs were living in the ignorance. It was manifested with the analphabetism and the lack capacity for reading. The pigs are represented as the most …show more content…
For example according to teenink.com in its article “people’s ignorance contributes to their political and social oppression” represents the pigs as the high class of the society, as a comparison of people who has the money and the power in real life, and represents the other animals as manipulated one. This is due to the lack of capacity of reading. In the novel boxer the horse was unable to see beyond of the reality, In spite of having been working hard, instead of it, he always said “I will work harder” “napoleon is always right” (animal farm, chapter V, page 24). Benjamin the donkey most of the time realized what was happening in there but he did not do anything against the pigs. The best ways for the pigs to manipulate the other animals were the lies in the squaler speeches, the oppression by the dogs and the lack of reading, information and interpretation in the seven