Throughout his book Animal Farm George Orwell proves a point about the nature of humans. The mottos in this book are very clear examples of what Orwell is trying to prove. He shows that humans are easily manipulated and indoctrinated through mottos, repetition, and euphemism. A leader who understands this can take power from them without even realizing what is happening.
The first example of this is “Napoleon is always right”. Boxer says this many times throughout the book. He is an influential part of the animals and when they see him saying this with such avid belief in it’s truth, they follow it as well. Napoleon had pushed this into Boxer’s mind and through Boxer, indoctrinated the rest of the Animals. They blindly followed Napoleon believing that whatever he said or did was right with no question. After it was instilled in the animals minds it was not able to be broken no matter how many times Napoleon’s lackeys left evidence of manipulation. There were some times when one or a few of the animals would question Napoleon’s rule but it was instantly drowned out with “four legs good, two legs bad”. It would come to the point where the animals couldn’t even think with how loud it was. People can’t think when noise is so loud that it completely distracts them. …show more content…
The pigs constantly changed the seven commandments and when questioned by the animals they simply said “do you not remember?”. The pigs also did this to change the story of the battle of cowshed so that it seemed as if Napoleon was a hero and Snowball was the enemy. They even said that they deserved the beds and the house and all their luxuries because they do all the “thinking”. Both of these are implying that the animals other than the pigs are stupid. They also make the animals question their memory and decide to rely on the pig’s memories. All this does is give the animals another reason to trust the pigs which is a terrible
The first example of this is “Napoleon is always right”. Boxer says this many times throughout the book. He is an influential part of the animals and when they see him saying this with such avid belief in it’s truth, they follow it as well. Napoleon had pushed this into Boxer’s mind and through Boxer, indoctrinated the rest of the Animals. They blindly followed Napoleon believing that whatever he said or did was right with no question. After it was instilled in the animals minds it was not able to be broken no matter how many times Napoleon’s lackeys left evidence of manipulation. There were some times when one or a few of the animals would question Napoleon’s rule but it was instantly drowned out with “four legs good, two legs bad”. It would come to the point where the animals couldn’t even think with how loud it was. People can’t think when noise is so loud that it completely distracts them. …show more content…
The pigs constantly changed the seven commandments and when questioned by the animals they simply said “do you not remember?”. The pigs also did this to change the story of the battle of cowshed so that it seemed as if Napoleon was a hero and Snowball was the enemy. They even said that they deserved the beds and the house and all their luxuries because they do all the “thinking”. Both of these are implying that the animals other than the pigs are stupid. They also make the animals question their memory and decide to rely on the pig’s memories. All this does is give the animals another reason to trust the pigs which is a terrible