Hannah Dinwiddie
English II
Period 8
17 February 2017
Title: The importance of education and the danger of an intelligent working class
Imagine this, someone wakes up and finds themselves in the 1920’s, in a place where no one is educated except for the over powering leader, in this case Joseph Stalin. They try to go back asleep and wake up back in there own time but they are stuck. It is an endless nightmare. George Orwell describes this situation in a more simple way by using animals instead of humans in his novel Animal Farm. In the beginning of the novel Old Major, an old pig, gave a speech about how they were going to overthrow the humans and run the farm without the help of any human. Squealer and Napoleon (the pigs) use their education …show more content…
Clover is an mare who acts like an motherly figure to the animals and is Boxer good friend. The sheep (who have no names) blindly follow Napoleon's every command. The importance of education and the danger of an intelligent working class is demonstrated in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell through the characterization of Boxer, the sheeps and the pigs.
Boxer who symbolizes the working class represents the danger of the uneducated animals through how Napoleon deceives Boxer. This is one of the first times Boxer realizes that it is important to be educated, “‘I do not believe that,’ he said. ‘Snowball fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed. I saw him myself. Did we not give him Animal Hero, First Class, immediately afterwards?’ ‘That was our mistake, conrade. For we know now-it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found - that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom.’ ‘But he was wounded,’ said Boxer. ‘ We all saw …show more content…
This is one of the ways the sheep were tricked because they were not properly educated: “Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ at crucial moments in Snowball’s speeches” (Orwell, 19). The sheep will go along with anybody that has an position of authority because they are not educated, so they cannot think for themselves. If the sheep were educated then they would realize that they were being manipulated. It is easy for Napoleon to control them for his own good because they are the most stupid animals on the farm. Napoleon used the sheep to get what they wanted: “But just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of - ‘Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!’” (Orwell, 5l). The other educated animals could not emphasize what was right and what was wrong to the sheep because Squealer separated the sheep from the animals so that he could change the sheep's minds and convience them what he wants them to think. It is easy change an uneducated person's mind by taking them away from society and teaching them what you want them
English II
Period 8
17 February 2017
Title: The importance of education and the danger of an intelligent working class
Imagine this, someone wakes up and finds themselves in the 1920’s, in a place where no one is educated except for the over powering leader, in this case Joseph Stalin. They try to go back asleep and wake up back in there own time but they are stuck. It is an endless nightmare. George Orwell describes this situation in a more simple way by using animals instead of humans in his novel Animal Farm. In the beginning of the novel Old Major, an old pig, gave a speech about how they were going to overthrow the humans and run the farm without the help of any human. Squealer and Napoleon (the pigs) use their education …show more content…
Clover is an mare who acts like an motherly figure to the animals and is Boxer good friend. The sheep (who have no names) blindly follow Napoleon's every command. The importance of education and the danger of an intelligent working class is demonstrated in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell through the characterization of Boxer, the sheeps and the pigs.
Boxer who symbolizes the working class represents the danger of the uneducated animals through how Napoleon deceives Boxer. This is one of the first times Boxer realizes that it is important to be educated, “‘I do not believe that,’ he said. ‘Snowball fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed. I saw him myself. Did we not give him Animal Hero, First Class, immediately afterwards?’ ‘That was our mistake, conrade. For we know now-it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found - that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom.’ ‘But he was wounded,’ said Boxer. ‘ We all saw …show more content…
This is one of the ways the sheep were tricked because they were not properly educated: “Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ at crucial moments in Snowball’s speeches” (Orwell, 19). The sheep will go along with anybody that has an position of authority because they are not educated, so they cannot think for themselves. If the sheep were educated then they would realize that they were being manipulated. It is easy for Napoleon to control them for his own good because they are the most stupid animals on the farm. Napoleon used the sheep to get what they wanted: “But just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of - ‘Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!’” (Orwell, 5l). The other educated animals could not emphasize what was right and what was wrong to the sheep because Squealer separated the sheep from the animals so that he could change the sheep's minds and convience them what he wants them to think. It is easy change an uneducated person's mind by taking them away from society and teaching them what you want them