Complacent Attitude In George Orwell's Animal Farm

In Animal Farm the animals eventually end up having a complacent attitude towards the way things become on the farm. The complacent attitude is basically a non-caring attitude. This non-caring attitude is also seen in excerpt of “He Got Game”. In “He Got Game” an example of the complacent attitude can be found in the first three lines in which it states, “Everything's approved/People used/Even murders excused/” This example can be directly seen in Animal Farm where Napoleon kills several animals and no-one even says anything about it they just blow it off as if he did nothing wrong. An example of Napoleon killing animals would be when he sold Boxer to a horse slaughterer and the animals are told lies to make them believe that he was picked up by a vet and the animals do not even question this they accept it and move on. Another example of a complacent attitude in “He Got Game” would be when it states, “1 outta 1 million residents/Being dissident/” This means that only one out of a million people are fighting against something. In Animal Farm this can be interpreted in a few ways one way is that no-one will stand up and disagree with …show more content…
In Animal Farm an example of when they should stop and look at things and how they are starting to change is when there are changes made to some of the seven commandments so that there are ways to get away with doing some of the things they where previously not allowed to do. One example of a commandment being changed is number four being changed to say, “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.” It has been changed as to allow the pigs to sleep on the beds in the