Are The Pigs In Control Animal Farm By George Orwell

One way we are shown in this extract that the pigs are in control would be through the revelation that the pigs have been educating themselves in private, without the other animals knowing about it. The pigs “now revealed that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and write” and the other animals were not part of this education, which suggests the pigs had control over how much they wanted the other animals to know and, if the pigs didn’t want the other animals to learn things or even know what the pigs were up to behind closed doors, the pigs wouldn’t allow that to happen. This is as a result of the intelligence that the pigs have due to teaching themselves from “an old spelling book which had belonged to Mr. Jones’s children and which had been thrown on the rubbish heap” that the other animals didn’t have access to. The fact the pigs ‘revealed’ this to the animals suggests that they knew it was unjust to prevent the other animals from having access to the same information as them and so they wanted to keep it a secret for as long as possible so that they could have enough knowledge to take control of the animals. This prevented the animals from being able to stop the pigs from taking control because they were not at the same level of intelligence to do so. Also, the fact that the pigs …show more content…
The fact that the pigs “sent for pots of black and white paint” and “sent for a ladder” as opposed to doing these things for themselves, clearly emphasises that the pigs have no interest in getting their hands dirty and getting involved in farm labour, they would much prefer to order the other animals around. The use of ‘sent for’ suggests that the pigs were giving out orders to the animals and treating them as slaves and the fact that the animals obeyed these orders suggests that the pigs had