Everyone Should Have The Ability To Vote Essay

In the society and government portrayed in Animal Farm by George Orwell, everyone should have the opportunity to vote. When there are people, or animals in this case, who have no choice but to step away and let a “superior” type of person vote, is incredibly unfair and takes a large jump away from equality. When a person is forced to not vote on something they cannot help, rebellion and protests are going to be extremely common. This is shown in Animal Farm, not by the pigs per say, but the animals were all treated poorly by Mr. Jones, so they all rebelled and took over the farm. Another example of rebellion, is when the hens all rebelled because their eggs were being taken from them, in the book it is explained as “For the first time …show more content…
In animal farm, the only animals who decided things were the pigs, thus making it so the farm and how it works and what it does is completely decided by the pigs. In order for everything to work and everyone to have some sort of say, or opportunity to have a say, everyone should have the ability to vote. The opposing side, claims that not everyone should have the opportunity to vote, because in the society they were in, many of the animals couldn’t learn to read, meaning they aren’t as “intelligent” as the pigs. This statement is extremely arguable. People who may not be as “intelligent” as other people, due to things that aren’t in their control, totally block out an entire group of people. It kind of puts up a giant brick wall in front of an entire group of people, whose voice may be important. In animal farm, it talks about how the pigs had completely changed the commandments to fit and shape into what they had wanted, without the input of anyone else. Another statement that the opposing side has made, is that there are natural born leaders, who are immediately going to take control. This is incorrect in the way that leaders and dictators are completely different