To begin, in the stories of “Animal Farm” the book concludes on how the animals of Manor Farm turn into the owner of them by dictating each other, stealing ideas from one another, changing rules, overworking each other, and being just overall a communist farm. The author’s perspective and tone regarding intelligence explains how the pigs and Napoleon used their intelligence to trick and persuade the animals to their way of living. In the book “Animal Farm”, “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership” (Orwell 12). The pigs dictate the animals and use them as slaves because they were not intelligent.
Edmund Burke once said, “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse”. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is about the animal's rebellion against their owner. The pigs are the only ones that can read and write. They abuse their abilities to gain power over the animals. Animal Farm shows that there are many ways power will corrupt good intentions, such as Ignorance, Manipulation, and Power Hoarding Behavior.
George Orwell’s Animal Farm demonstrates the dangers of being uneducated. He uses it to show manipulation and getting overworked. The book shows how the pigs are manipulating and walking over the animals that are uneducated, the animals show how stressful it is. It causes stress to others and makes it to where they overthink about what they’re doing right and wrong. Orwell portrays the dangers of being uneducated through the mistreatment of the farm animals by the highly intelligent and manipulative pigs.
A necessity to ensure an ideal and functional community, as demonstrated in George Orwell 's 1945 novel Animal Farm, is the ability to detect and prevent corrupt conduct, read, and the will to challenge authority, which the animals do not possess, therefore putting them at major fault. One of the main factors that leads to the downfall of the farm and Animalism itself is the blatant stupidity that the animals, excluding the pigs, possess. They are overly dense to the point where the concept of corruption is near unfathomable, and thus cannot detect it or act upon their suspicions. Their willingness to believe Squealer 's persuasive speeches whenever doubt arises indicate that the animals are unable to think for themselves. “The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own” (Orwell 19).
Animal Farm is a novel written by George Orwell that explores the importance of knowledge, education, and the power of language and rhetoric. In this book we discover that you can be manipulated by lack of knowledge. For instance when Napoleon took over, he did it slowly by manipulating the animals with the power of rhetoric. The animals didn't know they were being deceived, because they could hardly read. The animals lacked intellect, so they could not decipher if Napoleon or Snowball was telling the truth.
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 first step to maintaining control is to make sure that the other animals are educated on a very basic level, but aren't too smart to overrule the government. Napoleon is able to control the other animals by spreading an educational campaign throughout the farm and by using Squealer as a form of propaganda. Once the pigs teach themselves how to read and write perfectly, they are able to gain power and rise to the top because of their intelligence over the other animals. Just like in the Russian Revolution, the pigs start up a controlled educational campaign where they try to teach the animal farms the alphabet and how to read. The educational system in Animal Farm is controlled because although the pigs could fully teach the other animals how to read and write, they only teach them a limited amount so that they will not think for themselves and revolt against the pigs.
In both American politics and Animal Farm, the fortunate and privileged are the ones who run the show. Prior to the Animal Farm rebellion, “The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals.” (Orwell, 15). Pigs were regarded as the most special of the farm’s inhabitants, similar to how the wealthy are viewed as being the “chosen ones” in the United States. Throughout the novel, as the pigs gain more control, and they use their influence and the other animal’s admiration as their tool to control what laws are being made.
This is demonstrated multiple times, such as when Snowball, Squealer, and Napoleon demonstrate their literacy. “The pigs now revealed that during the past three months, they had taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book that had belonged to Mr. Jones’s children and which had been thrown on the rubbish heap.” (23) By writing commandments, and using human objects, the pigs subtly undermine the animals by creating a sense of inferiority simply backed up by the idea that the pigs use it for good, not evil. Without suggesting to anyone else to do the same and learn to read and write, the pigs create another way to intimidate and overpower the animals through writing and reading.
Throughout the George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm, the theme of power affects society develops consistently throughout the ten chapters of the book. Since the beginning of Old Major’s teachings, pigs have been the top of the social hierarchy due to their intelligence. Due to the amount of power intelligence gave the pigs, they were able to control and manipulate the animals into working and fighting. The animals were very simpleminded, leading to thinking the pigs are always true. In addition, the pigs exploited power tremendously by being the only ones to resolve or come up with any ideas; the other animals, however, could “never think of any resolutions of their own”(Orwell 31).
This relates to the theme because, throughout the story, the pigs have been in charge because they have more knowledge than the other animals. They were also really clever and could think of a way around every difficulty the farm experienced. ( Orwell 13) In the middle of the story, some crucial rules were being changed and the animals did not do anything about it. “ … pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds.”
At the beginning of Animal Farm, this is seen when the pigs
Text Evidence: “We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us.” p.52
In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell the Pigs Learned how to read and write, but was it for the benefit of the farm? I think it was so the Pigs could be superior to the other animals which breaks the idea of animalism but to take the other animals off the fact that it breaks animalism, the Pigs tried to teach the other (and much dumber) animals to read and write knowing they would not be able to. Some animals were able to memorize the seven lines of the animals commandments and some could only memorize the first six letters but the majority of the farm couldn’t learn at all. I think the Pigs intention was also to confuse some animals on the farm about the big picture of what the Pigs are doing or as some sort of distraction. I feel like the pigs will take advantage of the dumb animals and use reading and writing to lead them into something they do not understand or make the farm based around it more.
However, Orwell depicted, “The animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute to the flag, sing Beasts of England, and receive their orders for the week; but there would be no more debates” (Orwell 54). In the past, the animals had the ability to speak out at the farm Meetings, even if they chose not to. However, now that Napoleon took this right away from them, he got to be in charge of all the decisions for the farm and no one could contradict him. As Animal Farm developed, the pigs slowly disregarded animals’ rights and opinions, and the farm subtly gained more dystopian
