Ignorance In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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As a high school student who is constantly sleep deprived, I always wonder what the point of going to school is. However, after reading Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the reader can discover that education can change a society drastically. In Animal Farm, a group of animals overthrows their enemy, the humans. Their goal is to create animal equality, but in the end the pigs on the farm are able to outsmart the other animals by exploiting their incomprehension. On Animal Farm, the pigs are able to do this because they are more educated than the other animals. The pigs rely on ignorance in three examples in Animal Farm. If the animals had received and education, these three events would have turned out differently: the animals would have preserved …show more content…

If the animals were educated, the written records of the commandments, the ruler of the farm, and the reality of the animals’ freedom would have been different. The animals were oblivious to when Squealer was changing the commandments to benefit the pigs. They thought that they had just remembered them wrong, because this is what Squealer convinced them. The rulers of the farm were the pigs, more specifically Napoleon. If the animals were equal, they should have been able to vote for who the leader should be, but the pigs felt there was too much error in a democratic system. Throughout the whole book, the animals do not realize that they are not free. They are put under worse conditions than with Jones and they have a lack of food and sleep. The farm they hoped for in the beginning of the book had been completely abolished. The Utopian Society they imagined can not exist, due to power hungry greedy animals. Since some animals were more educated than others, they were able to twist around their words and the rules to get what they desired: power. This is evident in today’s times because right now there is hate, discrimination, and inequality in the world. The author is trying to show us that we like to think we can strive for an equal society, but an equal society is not necessarily fair. Orwell also teaches us the importance of education, and how it can determine whether an individual is on the top or bottom of the class system. Because of this, we learn that sometimes life is not equal or fair, but it is our duty to make sure everyone had equal opportunities, starting with equal

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