Animal Farm: How Pigs Are Misusing Power
Animal Farm is replete with subtle and not-so-subtle lessons on blind conformity and the misuse of power. This essay will highlight firstly, on how the pigs are misusing power and also about the animals that are following the pigs blindly. This interplay of the two themes can be seen through the education of the masses, knowledge of history, idealism and class structure.
In educating the masses of Animal Farm, the pigs used many instruments of abuse to fool many of the animals and to further implement their power. Such instruments can come in the form of the Seven Commandments, the threats the pigs made, songs, poems, the state rituals and of course Boxer’s Slogan. These were used to control the masses and by doing so Napoleon used this to his advantage, an example could be in the form of the Seven Commandments because very few animals were educated enough to read what it says and so Napoleon can modify the commandments and adapt them to his personal lusts like ‘sleeping in a bed’ or ‘drinking whisky’ …show more content…
In Animal Farm, after Old Major’s death and the rebellion of Mr Jones, things started off well and ‘all animals were equal’ however the pigs took the job in organising the farm and slowly they would gain more authority. Firstly it started off with the commandments because the pigs started having power over a few people. Since they had some power they decided that they would have some of the special privileges, an example of this is when they took all of the milk and apples for themselves and when the animals complained the pigs would use propaganda to get out of the situation in which this continued until the pigs were a different class distinction than the other animals. Slowly the phrase were changed to ‘all animals are equal but some are equal than others’ and more discrimination will continue just like what happened in Mr Jones was
In educating the masses of Animal Farm, the pigs used many instruments of abuse to fool many of the animals and to further implement their power. Such instruments can come in the form of the Seven Commandments, the threats the pigs made, songs, poems, the state rituals and of course Boxer’s Slogan. These were used to control the masses and by doing so Napoleon used this to his advantage, an example could be in the form of the Seven Commandments because very few animals were educated enough to read what it says and so Napoleon can modify the commandments and adapt them to his personal lusts like ‘sleeping in a bed’ or ‘drinking whisky’ …show more content…
In Animal Farm, after Old Major’s death and the rebellion of Mr Jones, things started off well and ‘all animals were equal’ however the pigs took the job in organising the farm and slowly they would gain more authority. Firstly it started off with the commandments because the pigs started having power over a few people. Since they had some power they decided that they would have some of the special privileges, an example of this is when they took all of the milk and apples for themselves and when the animals complained the pigs would use propaganda to get out of the situation in which this continued until the pigs were a different class distinction than the other animals. Slowly the phrase were changed to ‘all animals are equal but some are equal than others’ and more discrimination will continue just like what happened in Mr Jones was