Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

The phrase ‘knowledge is power’ plays a key factor in the book Animal Farm. If one human had all of the knowledge accessible to every other being, would that human be able to have the power over everyone else? The more knowledge and education over others, the more power that being could have over everyone else. The educated animals of the farm were the pigs and in the beginning the pig, Old Major, was the leader. He was able to control the farm just by being educated. Once Old Major died, two other pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, took over the farm. Napoleon used his knowledge to train dogs to get rid of Snowball, so he could have total control over the farm. The animals on the farm were not educated enough and did not have the knowledge to understand

Boxer, the strong work horse, was the most uneducated animal on the farm and thought that he had to work as hard as he could every day to make the farm prosper. His motto was “I will work harder” no matter what the situation was. Boxer was a true definition of a follower. He would work longer and harder than anyone else and he would make more sacrifices because he thought this was the right thing to do but truthfully, it was not. If Boxer had some of the knowledge that the pigs had, he could have been one of the leaders because of his motivation to make things better. But because he did not have any knowledge at all, he was left to do all of the work for everyone else while thinking it was

When they were first taught the commandments since the animals had no base education and only believed what the pigs said they thought the commandments were everything the pigs said they were, but truly over time the commandments slowly changed. Throughout the rest of the book when one of the animals referred to the commandments they would ask one animal to read it and the commandment would change each time because the animals were so incompetent they didn’t realize what was truly going