The Theme Of Education In Animal Farm By George Orwell

The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, should be read in every classroom. It is an allegory that has many great lessons that are learned and acquired from reading it. In this allegory it shows the process by which Stalin took control during the Russian Revolution through the portrayal of animals. Orwell had everything from “Napoleon” the pig as Stalin, all the way down to the sheep being the common people, and even Stalin’s KGB as Napoleon’s dogs. Throughout this novel, Orwell shows how Stalin kicked Lenin out of Russia and then shows how he was corrupt with the power that he had obtained. It displays how he took advantage of all of the people due to their lack of education and how they could effortlessly be persuaded. These themes show that …show more content…
Education is very important, even though most children and teens say that they hate school. There are many dangers of being uneducated. When someone is uneducated it is very easy to take advantage of them and use them to their benefit. In Orwell’s novel he shows many situations that prove and show why people should value their education, Napoleon and all of the pigs are intelligent because they are educated, while the rest of the animals are dumb. With a little propaganda from Squealer, Napoleon is able to initiate the animals to do what he pleases. He can take advantage of them with ease because they are uneducated. (Put a quote as an example here). This is why people should value their education, be glad they get a free education, and be happy to go to school, because without it they would live a miserable life. Orwell is showing that the young people need their education so that they are not naive to what is happening around them. If everyone in this country just skipped school and decided they did not want to get an education, any educated individual could effortlessly take control of the country and use everyone to their benefit and all of the people would not even know it was going on. Therefore people should get their education, giving them the ability to be aware of what is happening around …show more content…
When someone assumes power it would be very manageable for them to profit the power to their advantage. This would only work if the people they obtain power over, are uneducated and naive. In Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, Napoleon obtains the power because he realized that all of the other animals were uneducated and naive, therefore making it simple to control them and benefit from their absurdity. Napoleon communicated with the other animals through Squealer. He would tell the animals exactly what they wanted to hear. Squealer would stretch the truth to make the animals feel like they were being treated well, while in reality they were being treated terribly wrong. While all of the pigs were living like kings and had everything they needed and more, yet all of the other animals were being treated awful but they were being told they were living great so they believed it. All of the animals were so naive that they thought what he was saying was true and they believed him. This is an illustration of how people in power can be extremely corrupt. It serves as a summon to all that they should be careful and not be naive of what is occurring around