It might be hard to know when someone is lying but eventually it shows. Although if you just agree with them and not question it could end badly. In Animal Farm, the author George Orwell uses the selfishness of the leaders and gullibleness of the followers to contribute to the loss of freedom and equality in order to show that people should think for themselves so they can actually see what is going on. The leaders are naturally becoming the pigs because they are learning by themselves how to read and write. The two pigs who sort of are the top leaders are Snowball and Napoleon, although they would not agree on the same things.”Snowball and Napoleon were by far the most active in the debates”(page 31). They always have different ideas that lead to debates. But the other animals are not taking sides. …show more content…
The pigs teach the other animals how to read and write. “None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A”(page 33). Some of the other animals can read and write better than that, but others cannot. This is giving the pigs an advantage and therefore they push the other animals around. Even some of the animals can not remember the seven commandments so Snowball shortened them for them. So Napoleon said that the pigs are the ones who do the thinking for the farm. Napoleon takes over the farm by running Snowball out of it. Now wanting to be called leader he tries to get the other animals to call him that. “He was always referred to in formal style as “our Leader Comrade Napoleon”(page 93). He was a bad leader he lied to the animals and took things for himself and the pigs got special privileges. Napoleon also changes the seven commandments so he could do the things not allowed. Then Squealer explains the lies to the other animals. This is how the farm is