Persuasive Essay On Animal Farm By George Orwell

In “Animal Farm,” George Orwell cautions his audience of the dangers of not speaking up when you see something wrong. In the new system formed after the revolution, the common animals choose to be ignorant to the manipulative and conniving actions of the pig leadership. The creation of Animal Farm gave all the animals such pride for their achievement, and a positivity that their lives would be so much better. Now liberated, the common animals felt confident that the simple ideas Old Major had put forth would be upheld. Not smart enough to do it themselves, they trusted the pigs to figure out exactly how the new system would work. When the pigs began doing things that didn’t seem right, however, the common animals were too afraid to say anything. Even something as …show more content…
And as the pigs rose in power, there was less and less the common animals could do. When Squealer insisted it was Napoleon, not Snowball, who wanted to build a windmill, the animals had no choice but to do or say nothing. The “truth” that Squealer manufactured was the truth the animals must accept. If he said that Napoleon was using tactics, Napoleon was using tactics. “The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions” (Orwell 58). Orwell gives us as readers a series of events that clearly show how the silence of the majority leads to the power of the few. The first time the animals pretended that they didn’t notice something wrong, it was seemingly harmless. They didn’t have any milk before the revolution anyway. But as the pigs got smarter, and it became easier for the animals to turn a blind eye, something changed. Up until this point, the animals had at least some option to speak up. Now, though, that time was over. There were no more