Animal Farm Quote

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. A phrase told to people time and time again, which makes it ironic that they didn’t learn the meaning of the phrase the first time, and have to have it told to them again. In Animal Farm, this quote is proven through an allegory of the Russian Revolution. In the story, the animals blindly follow Napoleon and Squealer, and do/believe what they are told. The animals even forget what the farm was like when Mr. Jones was in charge. Lastly, in the end, the animals don’t do anything once the pigs start doing human like things. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, a lesson we must learn to insure we are not led blindly into a worse situation than we had before. I’m just going to say it, the animals on Animal Farm were oblivious and very near-sighted. When the Seven Commandments were changed, the animals sensed something had changed in them, but couldn’t remember exactly so they let it slide. Now this may have been reasonable had it been once, but it happened multiple times. They even caught Squealer in the act of changing them once and didn’t realize what was happening. Whenever something like this would happen, Squealer would convince them that they had remembered wrong. For example when Squealer convinces the animals that at the Battle of Cowshed, Snowball had actually almost lost the battle and Napoleon had saved them. The animals believe Squealer. The animals would

The animals in Animal Farm truly show us just how bad it is to do exactly that. Had they remembered what Mr. Jones was like, remembered the Seven Commandments, and had not just blindly followed the pigs, they may have achieved Old Major’s dream for Animal Farm. Instead, they let the pigs turn into man, and lead them back to, if not worse off than, where they were when Mr. Jones ran the farm. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat