I believe that the true theme of Animal Farm was that people of ignorance and hope are blinded from the reality of their problems-- that they, in time, can transform themselves into the true enemy. My thought could be supported with many events throughout the book. The most important moments in the story, especially, supply the strongest evidence to prove myself-- even true events, such as the Holocaust, prove to tell the same lesson. And, now, using the evidence that I have gathered around the introduction of Animalism, the struggle for Napoleon to stop the building of the windmill, and the animals false hope just before the story’s end, I have no doubt that the information confirming my theme, one of both reality and fiction, will be solid.
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But for some reason, the animals actually tried to continue to maintain the belief that things were getting better-- that things would continue to get better. However, the pigs were stealing the food and leaving it all to themselves, so, honestly, it just got worse. The animals were being ignorant and blind to the true source of problems and what they should actually have been fighting and working so hard for, though. Even as the pigs dressed up in clothes, they went on as if it was okay. The pigs were drinking, sleeping in beds, and even walking on two feet-- as the original commandments stated not to! But, even as the commandments kept being changed, the animals simply kept going. “There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS...” All of the animals on the farm had long forgotten about that. It was blocked out by a belief that was doomed to fail from the start: “...yet the animals never gave up hope... [they never lost] their sense of honour and privilege in being members of Animal Farm.” So, still, the animals remained hopeful for the future, which they believed to be bright, forgetting that the sole purpose of Animalism was for all animals to be equal, and that they never
But for some reason, the animals actually tried to continue to maintain the belief that things were getting better-- that things would continue to get better. However, the pigs were stealing the food and leaving it all to themselves, so, honestly, it just got worse. The animals were being ignorant and blind to the true source of problems and what they should actually have been fighting and working so hard for, though. Even as the pigs dressed up in clothes, they went on as if it was okay. The pigs were drinking, sleeping in beds, and even walking on two feet-- as the original commandments stated not to! But, even as the commandments kept being changed, the animals simply kept going. “There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS...” All of the animals on the farm had long forgotten about that. It was blocked out by a belief that was doomed to fail from the start: “...yet the animals never gave up hope... [they never lost] their sense of honour and privilege in being members of Animal Farm.” So, still, the animals remained hopeful for the future, which they believed to be bright, forgetting that the sole purpose of Animalism was for all animals to be equal, and that they never